[R] Reshape a sparse matrix

[Scott Hyde]

Thanks for the respons, Martin.  The program I wrote works as well for doing the reshaping, but it is nice to have it built in.

Is there a way to tell what version of Matrix is installed, and how do we know when new releases are issued?  I installed Matrix fairly recently, and thought I was up to date.

-Scott

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:32:44 +0200
>From: Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>  
>Subject: Re: [R] Reshape a sparse matrix  
>To: Scott Hyde <hydes at byuh.edu>
>Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>
>>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Hyde <hydes at byuh.edu>
>>>>>>     on Tue, 15 May 2007 17:03:13 -1000 (HST) writes:
>
>    Scott> Hi,
>
>    Scott> I'd like to reshape a sparse matrix generated from the Matrix package.  I can't seem to do it with the command
>
>    Scott> dim(A) <- c(6,9)
>
>    Scott> which works perfectly with the base package matrices, but with the sparse matrices it errors with
>
>    Scott> Error in dim(A) = c(6, 9) : dim<- : invalid first argument
>
>This *does* work in the current version of Matrix (0.99875-1), actually
>already in version 0.99875-0 .
>
>In the next version of Matrix, it will not only work, but also
>work "sparsely" internally via the new class "sparseVector" and
>its daughter classes, on which I've been working during the last
>10 days or so...
>Interesting that you bring the topic up right now ...
>
>
>    Scott> Manipulating the Dim attribute of the sparse Matrix does not produce the desired effect. A at Dim <- c(as.integer(9),as.integer(6)) does not produce a column ordering result, which I am assuming is because the data is stored in a row (i) and column (j) format instead (class dgTMatrix)
>
>You should not have manipulate slots of S4 classes in general.
>Some  people say that you should not even access them directly.
>
>    Scott> Does a function for this exist?
>
>yes, as I said above  dim(.) <- ..  works in the newest versions
>of "Matrix".
>
>Regards,
>Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich