[R] SVD/Eigenvector confusion

[Spencer Graves]

The documentation ?svd says U and V are orthogonal, i.e., that the 
transpose is the inverse.  hope this helps.  spencer graves

Philip Warner wrote:

> At 01:01 AM 29/02/2004, Douglas Bates wrote:
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>> Is there a reason you are doing the SVD in such a complicated way?
>> Why not use the svd function directly?
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> I am using it to debug other code that is deigned to compute SVDs, so 
> I actually want to understand the intermediate steps in constricting 
> the SVD.
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> Nothing I have seen in the various books & net sources I have read 
> seem to indicate that the eigenvectors for U & V have any special 
> requirements other than being of unit length, but the experimentation 
> in R seems to indicate otherwise, hence my confusion.
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