[R] Convert full matrix back to lower triangular matrix

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

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(2) The print method you see displayed in dd1 is equivalent to the following:

ddm * lower.tri(ddm)

Note that lower.tri(ddm) produces a logical matrix; in R, when you
multiply a numeric object by a logical, the latter is converted to 0's
and 1's. In this case, the lower triangular elements are retained
while the other elements are coerced to 0.

HTH,
Dennis


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Juliet Ndukum <jpntsang at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Given a vector;> ab = seq(0.5,1, by=0.1)> ab[1] 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
> The euclidean distance between the vector elements is given by the lower triangular matrix > dd1 =
>  dist(ab,"euclidean")> dd1    1   2   3   4   52 0.1                3 0.2 0.1            4 0.3 0.2 0.1        5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1    6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1
> Convert the lower triangular matrix to a full matrix> ddm = as.matrix(dd1)> ddm    1   2   3   4   5   61 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.52 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.43 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.34 0.3 0.2 0.1
>  0.0 0.1 0.25 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.16 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0
> I would be grateful if someone could provide me with a code to convert ddm to the lower triangular matrix as before i.e. dd1
> above.
> Your help will be greatly appreciated.JN
> NB: I apologize for the poor output of the previous email. Thanks for  your understanding.
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