[R] matrix problem

[Chuck Cleland]

On 4/21/2008 5:54 AM, William Simpson wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am running into a problem with matrices. I use R version 2.4.1 and
> an older version.
> 
> The problem is this:
> m<-matrix(ncol=3,nrow=4)
> m[,1:3]<-runif(n=4)
> 
> That does what I expect; it fills up the rows of the matrix with the
> data vector
>> m
>           [,1]      [,2]      [,3]
> [1,] 0.2083071 0.2083071 0.2083071
> [2,] 0.5865763 0.5865763 0.5865763
> [3,] 0.7901782 0.7901782 0.7901782
> [4,] 0.8298317 0.8298317 0.8298317
> 
> But this doesn't work:
> m[1:4,]<-runif(n=3)
>> m
>            [,1]       [,2]       [,3]
> [1,] 0.96864939 0.11656740 0.06182311
> [2,] 0.11656740 0.06182311 0.96864939
> [3,] 0.06182311 0.96864939 0.11656740
> [4,] 0.96864939 0.11656740 0.06182311
> 
> I want it to fill up the columns of the matrix with the data vector.

   Does this help?

 > matrix(runif(4), ncol=3, nrow=4)
            [,1]       [,2]       [,3]
[1,] 0.60226296 0.60226296 0.60226296
[2,] 0.74104084 0.74104084 0.74104084
[3,] 0.70955138 0.70955138 0.70955138
[4,] 0.03136881 0.03136881 0.03136881

 > matrix(runif(3), ncol=3, nrow=4, byrow=TRUE)
           [,1]      [,2]      [,3]
[1,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123
[2,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123
[3,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123
[4,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123

> Maybe there is a better way to do what I want. I need to do both of
> the above. The matrices are large, so I need a fast method.
> 
> Thanks very much for any help.
> 
> Bill Simpson
> 
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