I'm not sure I'm following you but have you tried,

identical(matrix(c(1,1,1,1),ncol=2), matrix(c(1,1,1,1),ncol=2))

?all.equal
?isTRUE
?identical

and possibly the compare package,

compare(matrix(c(1,1,1,1),ncol=2),matrix(c(1,1,1,1),ncol=2))


HTH,

baptiste

On 26 Apr 2009, at 18:02, Esmail wrote:

I'm trying to compare two matrices made up of bits.

doing a simple comparison of

        matA == matB

yields this sort of output.

      [,1] [,2]  [,3]  [,4]  [,5]  [,6]
[1,] FALSE TRUE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE
[2,]  TRUE TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
[3,] FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE
[4,] FALSE TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE
[5,]  TRUE TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE
[6,]  TRUE TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE

I really would like just one comprehensive value to say TRUE or FALSE.

This is the hack (rather ugly I think) I put together that works,
but there has to be a nicer way, no?

    res=pop[1:ROWS,] == keep[1:ROWS,]

    if ((ROWS*COL) == sum(res))
     {
       cat('they are equal\n')
     }else
       cat('they are NOT equal\n')

Thanks!

Esmail

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