Dear all, I'm trying to get a 2D matrix correlated with a reference matrix. I've been told I need to do this with convolution. I have the convolution down but now i have a complex number that I don't know how to convert back to a real number. Also How can I get the correlation coefficient from this? Cheers, Paul > m<-c(10,20,30,40,50,60) > i<-c(1,1,5,2,1,1) > m1<-cbind(m,i) > j<-c(0,10,50,20,10,0) > m2<-cbind(m,j) > pb<-fft(fft(m2)* fft(m1), inverse=TRUE) > pb m j [1,] 87000+0i 55800+0i [2,] 97200+0i 60000-0i [3,] 100680+0i 32520-0i [4,] 97560-0i 28800-0i [5,] 88800-0i 33000+0i [6,] 69840+0i 44400+0i >?real > real(pb) Error in vector("double", length) : unimplemented type 'complex' in 'asVecSize' > real(pb[,1], length(dim(pb)[1])) Error in real(pb[, 1], length(dim(pb)[1])) : unused argument(s) (1) > ?complex -- H. Paul Benton o The / o Scripps \ o Research / o Institute