imagine when you have complicated matrix algebra computation using R,

you cannot prevent some middle-terms become quadratic and absorbs into one
scalar, right?

if R cannot intelligently determine this, and you  have to manually add
"drop" everywhere,

do you think it is reasonable?

On 5/23/06, Patrick Burns <pburns@pburns.seanet.com> wrote:
>
> I think
>
> drop(B/D) * solve(A)
>
> would be a more transparent approach.
>
> It isn't that R can not do what you want, it is that
> it is saving you from shooting yourself in the foot
> in your attempt.  What you are doing is not really
> a matrix computation.
>
>
> Patrick Burns
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>
> Michael wrote:
>
> >This is very strange:
> >
> >I want compute the following in R:
> >
> >g = B/D * solve(A)
> >
> >where B and D are  quadratics so they are just a scalar number, e.g.
> B=t(a)
> >%*% F %*% a;
> >
> >I want to multiply B/D to A^(-1),
> >
> >but R just does not allow me to do that and it keeps complaining that
> >"nonconformable array, etc."
> >
> >
> >I tried the following two tricks and they worked:
> >
> >as.numeric(B/D) * solve(A)
> >
> >diag(as.numeric(B/D), 5, 5) %*% solve (A)
> >
> >----------------------------
> >
> >But if R cannot intelligently do scalar and matrix multiplication, it is
> >really problemetic.
> >
> >It basically cannot be used to do computations, since in complicated
> matrix
> >algebras, you have to distinguish where is scalar, and scalars obtained
> from
> >quadratics cannot be directly used to multiply another matrix, etc. It is
> >going to a huge mess...
> >
> >Any thoughts?
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