Is this what you are after:
> x1 <- matrix(1:25, 5)
> x2 <- x3 <- x1
>
> # combine matrices, redimension and then rename
> z <- cbind(x1, x2, x3)
> dim(z) <- c(5, 5, 3)
> z # without names
, , 1
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1 6 11 16 21
[2,] 2 7 12 17 22
[3,] 3 8 13 18 23
[4,] 4 9 14 19 24
[5,] 5 10 15 20 25
, , 2
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1 6 11 16 21
[2,] 2 7 12 17 22
[3,] 3 8 13 18 23
[4,] 4 9 14 19 24
[5,] 5 10 15 20 25
, , 3
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1 6 11 16 21
[2,] 2 7 12 17 22
[3,] 3 8 13 18 23
[4,] 4 9 14 19 24
[5,] 5 10 15 20 25
> dimnames(z) <- list(NULL, NULL, c('x1', 'x2', 'x3')) # object names
> z
, , x1
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1 6 11 16 21
[2,] 2 7 12 17 22
[3,] 3 8 13 18 23
[4,] 4 9 14 19 24
[5,] 5 10 15 20 25
, , x2
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1 6 11 16 21
[2,] 2 7 12 17 22
[3,] 3 8 13 18 23
[4,] 4 9 14 19 24
[5,] 5 10 15 20 25
, , x3
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1 6 11 16 21
[2,] 2 7 12 17 22
[3,] 3 8 13 18 23
[4,] 4 9 14 19 24
[5,] 5 10 15 20 25
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, ali_protocol
<mohammadianalimohammad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi every one,
>
> How is it possible to create a matrix with 3 dimensions from several 2
> dimensional matrice?
> Is it possible that each of "elementary/building block" matrices could be
> called by its corresponding original name?
>
> Thanks alot.
>
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