try this,
install.packages("expm", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";)
On 8 April 2010 17:28, arindam fadikar <arindam.fadi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:38 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:45 AM, arindam fadikar wrote:
>>
>> Dear users,
>>>
>>> How to get a symmetric square root of a positive definite matrix? I have
>>> tried using spectral decomposition, but some eigen values come out to be
>>> complex. Is there any function in R that can give the symmetric square
>>> root
>>> of a pd matrix?
>>>
>>>
>> require(expm)
>> ?sqrtm
>>
>>
>> expm is not a package, but a function which gives exp of a matrix, and i
> dont get any result from ?sqrtm. Please help.
>
>> --
>>> Arindam Fadikar
>>> M.Stat
>>> Indian Statistical Institute.
>>> New Delhi, India
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>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
>>
>
>
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