[R] a trick ??

vito muggeo
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:08:09 -0000

diag(rep(diag(A),p))

,of course.

(If I understand what you mean)
cheers,
vito


----- Original Message -----
From: Olivier Martin
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Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:09 PM
Subject: [R] a trick ??


Dear R users,
Suppose i have an A square matrix rxr. I want to obtain a block matrix  B
(pxr,pxr) where
the p diagonal blocks are A and  the others values are 0.
I would like to do something like : diag(A,ncol=pr, nrow=pr)
How can i do it ??
Thanks in advance,
Olivier.
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