How can I extract a list of the positions in the matrix? > A=matrix(1:8, nrow=2,ncol=4) > A [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 1 3 5 7 [2,] 2 4 6 8 Something like this pos.A 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4