R help - Aug 2005 - Block-diagonal matrix

Dear R-users,
 
Does anybody know how to construct a block-diagonal matrix (with the blocks
being different matrixs, concerning the dimension and the values), without use
loops ?
 
 
Thanks all,
 
Caio


		
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Hi

adiag() from the magic package does what you want:

 > library(magic)
Loading required package: abind
 > a <- matrix(1,2,2)
 > b <- matrix(6,2,3)
 > adiag(a,b)
      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,]    1    1    0    0    0
[2,]    1    1    0    0    0
[3,]    0    0    6    6    6
[4,]    0    0    6    6    6
 >


HTH

rksh



On 1 Sep 2005, at 00:25, Caio Lucidius Naberezny Azevedo wrote:
> Dear R-users,
>
> Does anybody know how to construct a block-diagonal matrix (with  
> the blocks being different matrixs, concerning the dimension and  
> the values), without use loops ?
>
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Caio
>
>
>
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