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Hi, I am generating large Kac matrices (also known as Clement matrix). This a tridiagonal matrix. I was wondering whether there is a vectorized solution that avoids the `for' loops to the following code: n <- 1000 Kacmat <- matrix(0, n+1, n+1) for (i in 1:n) Kacmat[i, i+1] <- n - i + 1 for (i in 2:(n+1)) Kacmat[i, i-1] <- i-1 The above code is fast, but I am curious about vectorized ways to do this. Thanks in advance. Best, Ravi Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor The Center on Aging and Health D...