Eigenvalues are not directly supported by the Ryacas interface but you can send this directly to yacas like this:
> yacas("EigenValues({{Cos(x), -Sin(x)}, {Sin(x), Cos(x)}})") [1] "Starting Yacas!" expression(Roots((cos(x) - xx)^2 + sin(x)^2)) On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:54 PM, John Mesheimer <john.meshei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's say I had a matrix like this: > > library(Ryacas) > x<-Sym("x") > m<-matrix(c(cos (x), sin(x), -sin(x), cos(x)), ncol=2) > > How can I use R to obtain the eigenvalues and eigenvectors? > > Thanks, > John > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.