[R] R matrix help

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Thu Jun 14 17:19:03 CEST 2012


What makes you think that with 12 elements the dimensions should be 3x4? It seems that 4x3 would be equally valid.

In every use of matrices that I have encountered, the dimensions have been relatable to some known quantity from the problem context, and matrix dimensioning has been an exercise in consistency checking rather than a guessing game. I recommend that you look at your overall problem again.
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karthicklakshman <karthick.lakshman at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear R experts,
>
>I am interested in getting the dimensions for the matrix dynamically,
>based
>on the the number of elements in a matrix for example. if the number is
>12, 
>I should get dim= 3X4,  if it is 20, dim=5X4. 
>please help me do this.
>
>Thank you
>Regards
>karthick
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