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Hello I'm a population ecologist and use R for all my stats and modelling. Recently I have been using R to numerically solve integral projection models. This involves constructing several large matrices. The current code by Easterling (Size-specific sensitivity: Applying a new structured population model. Ecology, 2000, 81, 694-708) uses nested loops to construct the matrices. To speed up the code I decided to replace these with outer functions. One of these works just as expected and the other almost works! Having spent 2 da...