[Rd] diag() has a bug (PR#13702)

michael.m.spiegel at gmail.com michael.m.spiegel at gmail.com
Thu May 14 15:45:09 CEST 2009


Full_Name: Michael Spiegel
Version: 2.9.0
OS: linux
Submission from: (NULL) (204.111.252.142)


The diag() function appears to reject the first argument when it is a matrix,
and nrow and ncol arguments are also provided.

> foo <- matrix(c(1:4),2,2)
> foo
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]    1    3
[2,]    2    4
> diag(foo)
[1] 1 4
> diag(foo, 2, 2)
Error in diag(foo, 2, 2) : first argument is array, but not matrix.
> is.matrix(foo)
[1] TRUE



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