[R] Memory Efficiency of Symmetric Matrix

[Nathan S. Watson-Haigh]

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I'm generating a symmetric correlation matrix using a data matrix as input:
mat <- cor(data.mat)

My question is:
Is there a more memory efficient way to store this data? For instance, since:
all(mat == t(mat))
every value is duplicated, and I should be able to almost half the memory usage for large matrices.

Any thoughts/comments?

Cheers,
Nathan


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