[R] Transforming a data matrix into a vector

[Charles Ellis]

Hi,

I am trying to transform a data matrix into a vector and have not be able to accomplish want I am looking for.  The setup is as follows. I start with a 3 x 3 matrix:

5 1 3
3 3 2
1 2 4

I would like to transorm it into a 27 x 1 vector of the follwing form

5
5
5
1
1
1
3
3
3
.
.
.
1
1
1
2
2
2
4
4
4

In essense I want to create a vector in which each element of the original matrix is repeated three times, starting with cell [1,1] and ending with cell [3,3].
This is small example of the larger problem I am trying to solve.  The actual data matrix is 352 x 15, and I would like to end up with a 26,400 x 1 vector.  So each element of the data matrix is repeated 5 times.

Any suggestions or hints would be much appreciated.  Thanks!

I am using;
R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

Cheers,
Charles