[R] Some difficulties to use the apply command on an array

[Jeff Newmiller]

apply _always_ returns a matrix of vector results. That is, the result of each call to FUN may be a matrix, but a matrix is merely a vector with dimensions that are in this case ignored. So restore the dimensions on the result:

array(apply(x, 1, FUN = function(x) diag( svd(x)$d )), dim=c(3,3,5))


On July 5, 2021 8:15:16 AM PDT, Eric Berger <ericjberger using gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Laurent,
>I am not sure how to get apply()  to work but the following uses
>lapply()
>and returns the matrices in a list.
>
>lapply(1:3, FUN = function(i) diag( svd(x[i,,])$d ))
>
>HTH,
>Eric
>
>On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 5:56 PM Laurent Rhelp <LaurentRHelp using free.fr>
>wrote:
>
>> Dear R-Help,
>>
>> I have an array x made up of three matrices of 5 rows and 3 columns
>of
>> complex numbers (the complex numbers are not the problem)
>>
>> ## my array
>> x <- structure(c(5.6196790161893828+0i, 5.7565523942393364+0i,
>> 8.5242834298729342+0i,
>>                10.304766710160479+0i, 11.412967010108229+0i,
>> -2.6952197604866495-5.7324226520260237e-18i,
>>                -3.8053698833683476-1.5535793240880411i,
>> -4.440850591952894-0.21277190153473785i,
>>                -4.9049897326853316+0.22487294128201613i,
>> -4.6982778900868931-0.35986943359186585i,
>>                -6.7722948827866034-1.8252881225149525e-16i,
>> -5.6864255243941733-0.82149125972147463i,
>>                -2.5321753317962115-3.4309121438578525i,
>> 0.85377696343414344-4.3720244641138883i,
>>                6.3363344379954638-2.23654533694011i,
>> -2.6952197604866495+5.7324226520260237e-18i,
>>                -3.8053698833683476+1.5535793240880411i,
>> -4.440850591952894+0.21277190153473785i,
>>                -4.9049897326853316-0.22487294128201613i,
>> -4.6982778900868931+0.35986943359186585i,
>>                3.1683154084671417+0i, 5.397392162921844+0i,
>> 8.3085887222115922+0i,
>>                11.150391891976289+0i, 13.173434845070231+0i,
>> 3.7978840709983359+5.0735539531499429e-17i,
>>                3.0599215005995717-2.3669737981128267i,
>> 0.5951827523696811-3.2116907301709845i,
>>                -1.7735244105472532-3.8366652813316566i,
>> -5.0558348297797169-2.6645747173403049i,
>>                -6.7722948827866034+1.8252881225149525e-16i,
>> -5.6864255243941733+0.82149125972147463i,
>>                -2.5321753317962115+3.4309121438578525i,
>> 0.85377696343414344+4.3720244641138883i,
>>                6.3363344379954638+2.23654533694011i,
>> 3.7978840709983359-5.0735539531499429e-17i,
>>                3.0599215005995717+2.3669737981128267i,
>> 0.5951827523696811+3.2116907301709845i,
>>                -1.7735244105472532+3.8366652813316566i,
>> -5.0558348297797169+2.6645747173403049i,
>>                8.5581082281979697+0i, 8.6908832216086331+0i,
>> 12.394094469562258+0i,
>>                16.106350896659897+0i, 19.569513600539693+0i), .Dim =
>> c(5L, 3L,
>> 3L))
>>
>> str(x)
>> #  cplx [1:5, 1:3, 1:3] 5.62+0i 5.76+0i 8.52+0i ...
>>
>> The dimensions (i,j,k) of my array are 5, 3, 3. For every value of i,
>I
>> am interested in the squared matrices made up of the j columns for
>all
>> the k indice. For a given value i I have to keep the row i for every
>k.
>> For example if i=1, I am interested by the matrix x[1,,]
>> ##
>> x[1,,]
>>
>> ##              [,1]         [,2]         [,3]
>> ## [1,]  5.619679+0i -2.695220+0i -6.772295+0i
>> ## [2,] -2.695220-0i  3.168315+0i  3.797884-0i
>> ## [3,] -6.772295-0i  3.797884+0i  8.558108+0i
>>
>> Now, for every value of i, I want to calculate the SVD decomposition
>and
>> get the diagonal matrix created by the singular values. When I set
>the i
>> value it works:
>> diag( svd(x[1,,])$d )
>>
>> # [,1]     [,2]      [,3]
>> # [1,] 15.73833 0.000000 0.0000000
>> # [2,]  0.00000 1.502771 0.0000000
>> # [3,]  0.00000 0.000000 0.1049992
>>
>>
>> But when I try to do a loop on the i value it doesn't work:
>>
>> apply(x, c(2,3), FUN = function(x) diag( svd(x)$d ))
>>
>>
>> # [,1]        [,2]        [,3]
>> # [1,] Numeric,361 Numeric,81  Numeric,144
>> # [2,] Numeric,81  Numeric,400 Numeric,81
>> # [3,] Numeric,144 Numeric,81  Numeric,900
>>
>> I do not understand how to do the apply on an array in order to get
>my
>> diagonals matrices. I think that I miss something about the
>> understanding of the array object.
>>
>> Thank you for your help
>>
>> Laurent
>>
>>
>>
>>
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