On Sep 29, 2015, at 4:49 PM, waddawanna wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> It looks like, there is no in-built function that can do GAUSS ".*"
> element-wise multiplication.
> Now, if you want to make the desired computations in R, it is actually
> preatty straightforward.
>
>> a<-c(1,2,3)
>> b<-matrix(rep(1:9,1),3,3,byrow=TRUE)
>> a*b
>
> That, should work fine. But, suppose that for some reason you have following
> situation, which can make you trip for hours of sleepless nights. That is,
> you have a matrix "b", where number of columns equal to number of columns of
> your vector "a". That is
>
>> b<-matrix(rep(1:9,1),3,3,byrow=TRUE);b
> [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,] 1 2 3
> [2,] 4 5 6
> [3,] 7 8 9
>
>> a <- matrix(rep(1:3,1),1,3,byrow=TRUE)
> [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,] 1 2 3
>
> If you try to do elementwise multilication, i.e., of those two
>> b*a
>
> You get an error that they are not comfomable,
You should not have gotten that error with either `*` or `%*%`.
> that is why, you have to
> write your own function (here,
> I just write the for-loop):
>> for ( i in 1:3 ) {
> foo[ ,i] = ( foo[ ,i] * bar[1,i] ) ;
> }
> [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,] 1 4 9
> [2,] 4 10 18
> [3,] 7 16 27
You were expecting c(1,2,3) to be a row-vector. That leads to disappointment.
If anything it will be a column-vector.
Notice .... no error:
> a*b
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 2 3
[2,] 8 10 12
[3,] 21 24 27
You really wanted to sweep that vector
> sweep(b, 1,a,'*') # Sweeping by rows is same a multiplying by recycle
> column vector
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 2 3
[2,] 8 10 12
[3,] 21 24 27
> sweep(b, 2, a, '*') # You wanted to "sweep" across columns
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 4 9
[2,] 4 10 18
[3,] 7 16 27
--
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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