[R] row*matrix

[R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>]

By default, R operations on matrices, vectors, etc are elementwise like .* in Matlab. If you want matrix multiplication use %*%

Hope this helps and good luck with R!

Feel free to write back if I can help further. 

Michael Weylandt



On Aug 6, 2011, at 4:35 PM, smajor <semajor at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all, I'm learning R. I'm used to Matlab and am having the following issue:
> 
> I define a column vector and matrix and then multiply them.  The result is
> not what I expect:
> v2 <- c(0,1,0)
> M <- cbind(c(1,4,7),c(2,5,8),c(3,6,9))
> M*v2
> 
>     [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,]    0    0    0
> [2,]    4    5    6
> [3,]    0    0    0
> 
> I expect the result to be a column, specifically the 2nd column of M.
> 
> Now I want to left multiply the matrix by a row vector, and I get errors:
> t(v2)*M
> Error in t(v2) * M : non-conformable arrays
>> V2 <- t(v2)
>> V2*M
> Error in V2 * M : non-conformable arrays
> I would expect to get the 2nd row of M as an output.
> 
> Why am I not getting a column for the first case?  Why is the second case
> causing errors?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I can get the 
> 
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