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Hi there, Given a positive definite symmetric matrix, I can use chol(x) to obtain U where U is upper triangular and x=U'U. For example, x=matrix(c(5,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4),3,3) U=chol(x) U # [,1] [,2] [,3] #[1,] 2.236068 0.4472136 0.8944272 #[2,] 0.000000 1.6733201 0.3585686 #[3,] 0.000000 0.0000000 1.7525492 t(U)%*%U # this is exactly x Does anyone know how to obtain L such