Estefania, if you do something like your.matrix <- matrix(1, 50, 50) your.matrix[upper.tri(your.matrix)] <- NA
You will have NAs for the entire upper triangle. If you opt to do your.matrix[upper.tri(your.matrix)] <- "" The upper triangle will be empty but it will coerce data to be 'character' instead of 'numeric'. Hope it helps. -----Mensagem original----- De: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Em nome de Estefania Ruiz Vargas Enviada em: sexta-feira, 13 de maio de 2011 11:53 Para: r-help@r-project.org Assunto: [R] How to store a triangular matrix Hello, I want to create a triangular matrix and only keep the lower triangle entries without having to allocate memory for the whole matrix, is there any way I can do something like A<-matrix(data, nrow=50) but for a triangular matrix? Thanks ERV [[alternative HTML version deleted]] "This message and its attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee, please, advise the sender immediately by replying to the e-mail and delete this message." "Este mensaje y sus anexos pueden contener información confidencial o privilegiada. Si ha recibido este e-mail por error por favor bórrelo y envíe un mensaje al remitente." "Esta mensagem e seus anexos podem conter informação confidencial ou privilegiada. Caso não seja o destinatário, solicitamos a imediata notificação ao remetente e exclusão da mensagem." ______________________________________________ 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.