[R] Formating a matrix in a exotic way

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 22:23:43 CEST 2010


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Megh Dal <megh700004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Suppose I have following arbitrary matrix:
>
>> set.seed(1)
>> mat <- matrix(rnorm(6), 3, 2)
>> mat
>           [,1]       [,2]
> [1,] -0.6264538  1.5952808
> [2,]  0.1836433  0.3295078
> [3,] -0.8356286 -0.8204684
>
> Now I want to make a simple object like (character type):
>
> "-0.6264538,1.5952808;0.1836433,0.3295078;-0.8356286,-0.8204684"
>
> I would be really grateful if somebody guide me how to perform that.
>

Try this:

 toString(t(mat))

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