[R] Subsetting a matrix [Again!]

[(Ted Harding)]

Hi Folks,

People's suggestion of "drop=FALSE" seemed to do the trick
(preserving "matrix" character when subestting to a row,
i.e. creating 1xk matrix).

However, I seem to have encountered a case where even this does
not work:

> mu<-c(1,2,3)
> mu<-matrix(mu,nrow=1)
> mu
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
     [1,]    1    2    3

> iX1<-c(T,F,F); iX2<- !iX1

> mu1<-mu[iX1,drop=FALSE]; mu2<-mu[iX2,drop=FALSE];
> mu1
[1] 1
> mu2
[1] 2 3

So now I still don't get my 1xk matrices, even though mu is a
matrix and I've used "drop=FALSE". Why?

(I'm getting a bit bewildered by all this, and must get it pinned
down: the code this will go into is too complicated to allow easy
debugging if the subsetting does unpredicted things.)

[BTW: Just in case anyone gets the thought that it might work if you
 matrify iX1, iX2 e.g. iX1<-matrix(iX1,nrow=1) -- well, it doesn't!]

Best wishes to all,
Ted.



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