R help - Oct 2010 - Putting the same array into a matrix

Hi,

I have an array and I want to put in into a matrix x number of times. Currently
I doing this

matrix <- cbind(array, array, array).

Is there a more elegant way of doing this?

I've tried

matrix <- cbind(rep(array, times=x)) and matrix <- rep(cbind(array), times
= 5)

but it didn't work.

Thanks.

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Desmond Lim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an array and I want to put in into a matrix x number of times.
Currently I doing this
>
> matrix <- cbind(array, array, array).
>
> Is there a more elegant way of doing this?
Fortunately!

If 'array' really is a matrix (bad choice of names here, Bub!), then

a.matrix <- matrix( rep( array, 3 ), nc = ncol( array )* 3 )

But this will work too:

a.matrix <- do.call( cbind, rep( list( array ), 3) )

even if 'array' is a data.frame

HTH,

Chuck

>
> I've tried
>
> matrix <- cbind(rep(array, times=x)) and matrix <- rep(cbind(array),
times = 5)
>
> but it didn't work.
>
> Thanks.
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