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Dear R-list, I am in the process of translating a long function written in Matlab into R (mainly because I am a big of fan of R, and folks will not have to pay to use it :). In the translation of this function I got stack because they use spdiags, which, as far as I can tell it is not available in R. I have explored the Matrix package, from which I borrowed some of the functions (e.g.,