Try this:
> m12 <- matrix(10, 1, 2)
> m22 <- matrix(20, 2, 2)
> # create matrix of lists of matrices
> M <- matrix(list(list(1, 2), list(m12, m12), list(t(m12)), list(m22, m22,
> m22)), 2, 2)
> M
[,1] [,2]
[1,] List,2 List,1
[2,] List,2 List,3
> M[[1,2]]
[[1]]
[,1]
[1,] 10
[2,] 10
> M[[2,1]]
[[1]]
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 10 10
[[2]]
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 10 10
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Michael Kogan<michael.ko...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to programming, new to R and even new to mailing lists so please be
> patient with me. I need to manage many matrices generated by an R program.
> These matrices have different dimensions and I'd like to group them somehow.
> The best way would be to have a big matrix (let's call it database) where
> every element database[x,y] consists of a list of matrices that all have the
> dimensions ncol(matrix1)=x and nrow(matrix1)=y. So those matrices have to be
> embedded into lists and the lists have to be embedded in the big database
> matrix. If I simply try
>
> database=matrix(0,10,10)
> database[4,4]=c(matrix1,matrix2)
>
> I get
>
> Error in database[4, 4] = c(matrix1, matrix2) :
> number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
> Execution halted
>
> which makes sense of course... Is there any possibility to make this work?
> Or maybe there is a better way to organize those matrices?
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
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