[R] matrix transpose

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> On 16/02/2009, at 8:36 AM, Roger wrote:
>
>> This is supposed to be an easy operation, but R 2.8.1 on Mac OS X
>> gives me a
>> lot trouble. the t() function simply does not work properly.  What I
>> mean is
>> it works sometimes but does not work at the most of the time, even
>> with the
>> same matrix.
>>
>> this is an example taken from R help
>>
>>> a <- matrix(1:30, 5,6)
>>> t(a)
>> Error in t(a) : unused argument(s) (1:30)
>>
>> It just gives this error.  If I restart my Mac (Yeah, have to restart
>> the
>> OS), then there are chances t() works, but sometimes it still does
>> not work.
>>
>> Can anyone give me another way to compute the transpose in R?
>
> No.  That's the only way. :-)
>

nonsense.  the other way is:

base::t(a)

if this works while t(a) fails, the problem is solved (= do *not*
redefine t).  if this doesn't work, complain again ;)

vQ