Assuming that the number of rows is even and that your matrix is A, element-wise product of pairs of rows can be calculated as
A[seq(1,nrow(A),by=2),]*A{seq(2,nrow(A),by=2),] --- On Mon, 28/7/08, rcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: rcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [R] product of successive rows > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Monday, 28 July, 2008, 8:20 AM > Hi everyone, > > I want to perform an operation on a matrx that outputs the > product of > successive pairs of rows. For example: calculating the > product between rows > 1 & 2; 3 & 4; 5 & 6...etc. > > Does anyone know of any readily available functions that > can do this? > > Thanks, > > rcoder > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/product-of-successive-rows-tp18681259p18681259.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.