Dear List:

I am having to build a block-diagonal matrix (vl) and am currently using
the following code.

I<-diag(sample.size) 
vl<-kronecker(I,vl.mat)
 

This code works fine, but for large N, it is a huge memory hog. Is there
a more efficient method for constructing vl?

Thanks,

Harold


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