On 17/09/2018 12:14 PM, William Revelle wrote:
Dear list

A strange bug in the psych package is due to the behavior of the diag function:

It gives the expected values for 1, a vector (-1,1), but not for -1

Is this a known feature?

It is pretty clearly documented:

"diag has four distinct usages:

...

3. x is a scalar (length-one vector) and the only argument, it returns a square identity matrix of size given by the scalar."

Duncan Murdoch



diag(1)
      [,1]
[1,]    1
diag(c(-1,1))
      [,1] [,2]
[1,]   -1    0
[2,]    0    1
diag(-1)
Error in diag(-1) : invalid 'nrow' value (< 0)


Bill


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