[R] calculations on diagonals of a matrix

[Alec Stephenson]

you could index the elements explicitly via

index.matrix <-
matrix(seq(to=i,len=min(i,j)),seq(to=j,len=min(i,j)),ncol=2)

and so b_ij = sum(a.matrix[index.matrix]), or you could use the function
diag on the appropriate sub matrices of a.matrix.


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On Sat, 19 May 2001, Griffith Feeney wrote:

> Given an nxm matrix A I want to compute the nxm matrix B whose ij-th 
> element is the sum of the elements of A lying on the diagonal that ends 
> with element ij, i.e.,
> 
>      b_ij = a_ij + a_(i-1)(j-1) + a_(i-2)(j-2) + ...
> 
> In APL (which I no longer use), I would use the 'rotate' operator to derive 
> an array whose columns are diagonals of the given array and then cumulate 
> down columns. Is there a similar operator in R, or is there another/better way?
> 
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