Re: [R] Beginning Eigen System question.

2010-06-23 Thread William Revelle
Kevin, At 3:32 PM -0700 6/23/10, wrote: Forgive me if I missunderstand a basic Eigensystem but when I present the following matrix to most any other LinearAlgebra system: 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 I get an answer like: //$values //[1] 5.00e+00 1.00e+00 -5.536207e-16 //$vectors /

Re: [R] Beginning Eigen System question.

2010-06-23 Thread Ravi Varadhan
-project.org Subject: [R] Beginning Eigen System question. Forgive me if I missunderstand a basic Eigensystem but when I present the following matrix to most any other LinearAlgebra system: 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 I get an answer like: //$values //[1] 5.00e+00 1.00e+00 -5.536207e-16

Re: [R] Beginning Eigen System question.

2010-06-23 Thread Joris Meys
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Joris Meys wrote: > Which other Linear Algebra system, and which function did you use in R? > Cheers > Joris Never mind, off course you used "eigen()"... Eigenvectors are only determined up to a constant. If I'm not mistaken (but check the help files on it), R no

Re: [R] Beginning Eigen System question.

2010-06-23 Thread Joris Meys
Which other Linear Algebra system, and which function did you use in R? Cheers Joris On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:32 AM, wrote: > Forgive me if I missunderstand a basic Eigensystem but when I present the > following matrix to most any other LinearAlgebra system: > >  1  3  1 >  1  2  2 >  1  1  3

[R] Beginning Eigen System question.

2010-06-23 Thread rkevinburton
Forgive me if I missunderstand a basic Eigensystem but when I present the following matrix to most any other LinearAlgebra system: 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 I get an answer like: //$values //[1] 5.00e+00 1.00e+00 -5.536207e-16 //$vectors // [,1] [,2] [,3] //[1,