[R] Avoiding for-loops

[(Ted Harding)]

On 25-Nov-04 John wrote:
> Hello R-users,
> 
> I have a symmetric matrix of numerical values and I
> want to obtain those values in the upper or lower
> triangle of the matrix in a vector. I tried to do the
> job by using two for-loops but it doens't seem to be a
> clever way, and I'd like to know a more efficient code
> for a large matrix of thousands of rows and columns.

The two functions uuper.tri and lower.tri do just this job!

Best wishes,
Ted.


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Date: 25-Nov-04                                       Time: 18:54:20
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