[R] Extracting/setting elements from/in a matrix/array

[Laurent Gautier]

Dear all,


I had to extracts/set elements from/in a matrix. Let say I have two
vectors dim1 and dim2 of indices in the respective two dimensions of a
matrix: I want to extract all the corresponding elements. I the case of a
nxn matrix, dim1 <- 1:n and dim2 <- 1:n would extract the diagonal.

I know one way would be to use the functions 'row' and 'col', but the
matrixes I have are can be rather large. This is probably a detail but
I was looking for something that would avoid be bit more memory
friendly... I have made functions for that purpose but I suspect somebody
already did something (which would be in R, but I could not find it...).
For the sake of avoiding duplication of similar things (hence making code 
more readable), I would be happy to replace it in my code.

Does anybody knows if such things already exists ?


Laurent



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