[R] Forcing scalar multiplication.

[rkevinburton at charter.net]

I am trying to check the results from an Eigen decomposition and I need to force a scalar multiplication. The fundamental equation is: Ax = lx. Where 'l' is the eigen value and x is the eigen vector corresponding to the eigenvalue. 'R' returns the eigenvalues as a vector (e <- eigen(A); e$values). So in order to 'check' the result I would multiply the eigenvalues ('l') by the eigenvectors. But unless I do it one by one (say e$values[1] * e$vectors[,1]) 'R' tries a matrix multiplication and that is not what I want.  I would like a matrix that is formed by the SCALAR multiplication of each of the values by the corresponding eigenvector. How can I force such a multiplication?

Thank you.

Kevin