[R] calculations on diagonals of a matrix

[Martin Henry H. Stevens]

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From: "Griffith Feeney" <gfeeney at gfeeney.com>
> 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.,
>

How about sum( diag(  A )[ 1:i ] )?

>      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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