On 20-Feb-2012 Graziano Mirata wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to multiply each column of a matrix such to have
> a unique resulting vector with length equal to the number of
> rows of the original matrix. In short I would like to do what
> prod(.) function in Matlab does, i.e.
>
> A <-matrix(c(1:10),5,2)
>
> V = A[,1]*A[,2]
>
> Thank you
>
> Graziano
The Matlab prod(A,2) function computes the products along the
rows of the matrix A and returns the result as a column vector,
of length equal to the number of rows in A, which seems to be
what you describe.
Your code above does this for your 2-column example, but the
result is a simple "R vector" which is not an array (and in
particular is not a column vector):
A[,1]*A[,2]
# [1] 6 14 24 36 50
dim(A[,1]*A[,2])
# NULL
For a matrix A with arbitrary number of columns, if you wanted
the row sums rather than the row products, you could use the
R function rowSums():
rowSums(A)
# [1] 7 9 11 13 15
This is still a dimensionless "simple R vector":
dim(rowSums(A))
# NULL
Unfortunately, there seems to be no equivalent for products
(e.g. "rowProds"). But you can define one:
rowProds <- function(X){ apply(X,1,FUN="prod") }
rowProds(A)
# [1] 6 14 24 36 50
Even then, the result is a "simple R vector", without dimensions:
dim(rowProds(A))
# NULL
If you need an array (row) vector then you can apply t():
t(rowProds(A))
# [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
# [1,] 6 14 24 36 50
or t(t()) for a column vector:
t(t(rowProds(A)))
# [,1]
# [1,] 6
# [2,] 14
# [3,] 24
# [4,] 36
# [5,] 50
Ted.
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Date: 20-Feb-2012 Time: 17:54:13
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