[R] Symmetric matrix

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

try the following

a <- matrix(rnorm(36), 6)
ind <- lower.tri(a)
a[ind] <- t(a)[ind]
a


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris


Megh Dal wrote:
> I have following matrix :
> 
> a = matrix(rnorm(36), 6)
> 
> Now I want to replace the lower-triangular elements with it's upper-triangular elements. That is I want to make a symmetric matrix from a. I have tried with lower.tri() and upper.tri() function, but got desired result. Can anyone please tell me how to do that?
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