Avi,
I was not trying to provide the most economical solution. I was trying
to anticipate that people (either the OP or others searching for how
to stack columns of a matrix) might be motivated by calculations in
multilinear algebra, in which case they might be interested in the
rTensor package.
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:16?PM <avi.e.gross at gmail.com>
wrote:>
> Eric,
>
> I am not sure your solution is particularly economical albeit it works for
arbitrary arrays of any dimension, presumably. But it seems to involve
converting a matrix to a tensor just to undo it back to a vector. Other
solutions offered here, simply manipulate the dim attribute of the data
structure.
>
> Of course, the OP may have uses in mind which the package might make
easier. We often get fairly specific questions here without the additional
context that may help guide a better answer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf Of Eric
Berger
> Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2023 3:34 AM
> To: Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
> Cc: R-help Mailing List <r-help at r-project.org>; Steven Yen
<styen at ntu.edu.tw>
> Subject: Re: [R] Stacking matrix columns
>
> Stacking columns of a matrix is a standard operation in multilinear
> algebra, usually written as the operator vec().
> I checked to see if there is an R package that deals with multilinear
> algebra. I found rTensor, which has a function vec().
> So, yet another way to accomplish what you want would be:
>
> > library(rTensor)
> > vec(as.tensor(x))
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 5:05?AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Or just dim(x) <- NULL.
> > (as matrices in base R are just vectors with a dim attribute stored in
> > column major order)
> >
> > ergo:
> >
> > > x
> > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> > > x<- 1:20 ## a vector
> > > is.matrix(x)
> > [1] FALSE
> > > dim(x) <- c(5,4)
> > > is.matrix(x)
> > [1] TRUE
> > > attributes(x)
> > $dim
> > [1] 5 4
> >
> > > ## in painful and unnecessary detail as dim() should be used
instead
> > > attr(x, "dim") <- NULL
> > > is.matrix(x)
> > [1] FALSE
> > > x
> > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> >
> > ## well, you get it...
> >
> > -- Bert
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 5:21?PM Iris Simmons <ikwsimmo at
gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > You could also do
> > >
> > > dim(x) <- c(length(x), 1)
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 20:12 Steven Yen <styen at ntu.edu.tw>
wrote:
> > >
> > > > I wish to stack columns of a matrix into one column. The
following
> > > > matrix command does it. Any other ways? Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > > x<-matrix(1:20,5,4)
> > > > > x
> > > > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
> > > > [1,] 1 6 11 16
> > > > [2,] 2 7 12 17
> > > > [3,] 3 8 13 18
> > > > [4,] 4 9 14 19
> > > > [5,] 5 10 15 20
> > > >
> > > > > matrix(x,ncol=1)
> > > > [,1]
> > > > [1,] 1
> > > > [2,] 2
> > > > [3,] 3
> > > > [4,] 4
> > > > [5,] 5
> > > > [6,] 6
> > > > [7,] 7
> > > > [8,] 8
> > > > [9,] 9
> > > > [10,] 10
> > > > [11,] 11
> > > > [12,] 12
> > > > [13,] 13
> > > > [14,] 14
> > > > [15,] 15
> > > > [16,] 16
> > > > [17,] 17
> > > > [18,] 18
> > > > [19,] 19
> > > > [20,] 20
> > > > >
> > > >
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