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dear all, i have a quite simple question, i want to fill up a Matrix like done in the following function, but the performance is very bad for large dimensions is there a way to do this like with apply or something similar? makeMatrix <- function(a, b,dim) { X=matrix(0,ncol=dim,nrow=dim) for (i in c(1:dim)){ for (j in c(1:dim)) { if (i==j) {X[i,j]<-a} else { X[i,j]<- exp((