[R] Multiply row of a matrix

[Jeff Newmiller]

Why this works does not become clear until you actually pay attention to how matrices are laid out in memory as a vector, and how vector replication works.  Those ideas are not that difficult to learn, but they feel different than in other languages (e.g. matlab) and they make a huge difference when you want to speed things up. Read the appropriate section in the Introduction to R document that comes with R until you see what is happening, and ask for clarification if you are still lost. 
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On February 21, 2017 9:00:59 AM PST, William Dunlap via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
>> Mat * c(3, 1, 0.5)
>     [,1] [,2] [,3]
>[1,]  3.0    6  9.0
>[2,]  4.0    5  6.0
>[3,]  3.5    4  4.5
>
>
>Bill Dunlap
>TIBCO Software
>wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
>On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:23 AM,  <ac.dasilva at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>> If we have the following matrix:
>>
>> Mat<-matrix(1:9, byrow=TRUE, nrow=3)
>> Mat
>>
>>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
>> [1,]    1    2    3
>> [2,]    4    5    6
>> [3,]    7    8    9
>>
>>  I would like to have each row multiplied by a different number.
>> So I would like row 1 multiplied by 3, row2 by 1 and row3 by 0.5
>> Which would give:
>>
>>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
>> [1,]    3    6    9
>> [2,]    4    5    6
>> [3,]    3.5  4    4.5
>>
>>
>> Whatever I try, I always obtain
>>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
>> [1,]    3    2  1.5
>> [2,]   12    5  3.0
>> [3,]   21    8  4.5
>>
>> Which corresponds to the columns multiplied by the factors
>>
>> Could anyone help we to get the proper result ?
>> Best, Anne-Christine da Silva
>>
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