R help - Jul 2006 - polynomial expansion in R

Hi:
   I have two vectors of data, x and y and I want to get the
"polynomial" expansion of (x+y)^p with any integer power p in R.
Suppose p=2, then I want a matrix of five vectors, namely, x y x^2 y^2 x*y. The
coefficient of the polynomial is not needed. I can write it manully if p is
small. But I want it in the case of p=10 or even bigger, is there any function
in R can do that automatically for me with certain choice of p?
   Thx a lot!
 
 liu
 
 		
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>>>>> "yyan" == yyan liu <zhliur at yahoo.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:11:31 -0700 (PDT) writes:
    yyan> Hi: I have two vectors of data, x and y and I want to
    yyan> get the "polynomial" expansion of (x+y)^p with any
    yyan> integer power p in R. Suppose p=2, then I want a
    yyan> matrix of five vectors, namely, x y x^2 y^2 x*y. The
    yyan> coefficient of the polynomial is not needed. I can
    yyan> write it manully if p is small. But I want it in the
    yyan> case of p=10 or even bigger, is there any function in
    yyan> R can do that automatically for me with certain choice
    yyan> of p?  Thx a lot!
 

 polym(x,y, degree = p, raw = TRUE)

will probably be pretty close to what you want.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich