[R] Conversion of symmetry matrix into a vector ONE MORE QUESTION

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Try the as.dist() function -- it won't change any values, only give
you something that, upon printing, gets formatted like a dist object.
as.matrix() will reverse it.

Michael

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:58 AM, ram basnet <basnetabc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Michael,
> Thank you very much.
> That what i exactly want.
>
> One more question:
> Do you know some code that convert a symmetric matrix into a
> lower-triangular matrix (not vector) ?
> I tried with function "lower.tri" and "lower" (from ecodist package), but
> they don't give lower-triangular value in the form of matrix, it gives in
> the form of vector.
> The function "dist" you used here, is not suitable to calculate correlation.
>
> To be more clear, i want to calculate correlation first, which give a
> symmetric matrix. Now i want to convert it into a "lower-triangular
> correlation matrix".
> If there is some way available or some function in R, it will be very nice.
> Thank you very much.
> Wish you good time.
> Thanks
>
> Regards,
> Ram Kumar Basnet.
> Ph. D. student
>
> From: R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>
> To: ram basnet <basnetabc at yahoo.com>
> Cc: R help <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 5:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] Conversion of symmetry matrix into a vector
>
> Try something like this:
>
> X = matrix(rnorm(25), 5); colnames(X) <- rownames(X) <- letters[1:5]
>
> Y <- dist(X)
>
> library(reshape)
> melt(as.matrix(Y))
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:03 PM, ram basnet <basnetabc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Dear R users,
>>
>> I am not good in R-language programming. So, i need your help.
>>
>> I want to convert my lower-triangle value of symmetry matrix into a vector
>> with their row and column name.
>> I found a function called "sm2vec" in "corpcor" package but it give only a
>> vector of values but not row and column names. But i also want ROW and
>> COLUMN name together with their corresponding values.
>>
>> To make more clear,
>> For example: Suppose i have a symmetric matrix with lower-triangle value
>> with 5 variables (eg. a - e). But in real, i have many variables.
>>
>>   a b c d e
>> a  - - - - -
>> b -0.44145  - - -  -
>> c -0.67922 0.232548  - -  -
>> d 0.114012 0.186583 0.244655  -  -
>> e -0.031 -0.35098 -0.16327 -0.34573  -
>>
>> Now, I want to convert above table into the following format. So, if some
>> one can tell what kind of R code does this, it will be great help.
>>
>> row name column name value
>> b a -0.44145
>> c a -0.67922
>> d a 0.114012
>> e a -0.031
>> c b 0.232548
>> d b 0.186583
>> e b -0.35098
>> d c 0.244655
>> e c -0.16327
>> e d -0.34573
>>
>> If some one can help me, it will be great for me.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ram Kumar Basnet
>> Ph. D. student.
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>>
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