Your question is unclear. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Usman Munir <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Suppose I have a matrix (cohort are rows and years are columns) > > > > [2000] [2001] [2002] [2003] > > [C1] 0.01 0.03 0.02 0.09 > > [C2] 0.06 0.05 0.07 0.11 > > [C3] 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.98 > > [C4] 0.7 0.6 0.2 0.77 > > > > > > I want to extracts the diagonals to get a matrix which looks like this (C1 > becomes C2 in 2002, C2 becomes C3 in 2003 and so on) > > > > [C1] [C2] [C3] [C4] > > [2000] 0.01 0.06 0.1 0.7 > > [2001] 0.05 0.5 0.6 0 > > [2002] 0.4 0.2 0 0 > > [2003] 0.77 0 0 0 > > > > The matrix can be of any size (for simplicity I have created a 4*4). Is > there a function in R that does this? I know R has functions like R diag and > lower triangular but that doesn’t help. Any tips will be appreciated. > > > Thanks! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > >
-- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah.com [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.

