Hi all,
I have been searching all sorts of documentation, reference cards, cheat
sheets but can't find why R's
crossprod(A, B) which is identical to A%*%B
does not produce the same as Matlabs
cross(A, B)
Supposedly both calculate the cross product, and say so, or where do I
go wrong?
R is only doing sums in the crossprod however, as indicated by
(z <- crossprod(1:4)) # = sum(1 + 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2)
in
http://127.0.0.1:13073/library/base/html/crossprod.html
R's result of
g <- rbind(c(1, 2, 3), c( 4, 5, 6))
h <- rbind(c(4, 5, 6), c(1, 2, 3))
c <- crossprod(g, h)
is
> c
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 8 13 18
[2,] 13 20 27
[3,] 18 27 36
because there are only sums involved, however, I cant work out ALL of
them for the 3D example, something like
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1*4+4*1 ? ? # #sum
of elementwise multiplication of first column of first matrix with first
column of second matrix of second matrix
[2,] ? 2*5+5*2 ?
? cant figure out how these were derived, definitely this is NOT
identical to e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product
I can work it out for the tcrossprod
> c <- tcrossprod(g, h)
> c
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 32 14
[2,] 77 32
because
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1*4+2*5+3*6 1*1+2*2+3*3 #sum of elementwise multiplication
of first line of first matrix with first line of second matrix sum of
elementwise multiplication of first line of first matrix with second
line of second matrix
[2,] 4*4+5*5+6*6 4*1+5*2+6*3 #sum of elementwise multiplication
of second line of first matrix with first line of second matrix sum of
elementwise multiplication of second line of first matrix with second
line of second matrix
outer product is something completely different again , no need to show
it here
Matlab's result in contrast of
g = [1 2 3 ; 4 5 6]
h = [4 5 6; 1 2 3]
c = cross(g,h)
is
c =
-3 6 -3
3 -6 3
which is in accordance to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product
and any math text book
>> d = dot(g, h)
d =
32 50 72
which is of course something different again
What exactly does crossprod mean in R? and why does R's cross product
not do the same as indicated in references for cross products?
base::crossprod
doesnt tell me much:
function (x, y = NULL)
.Internal(crossprod(x, y))
<environment: namespace:base>
Where exactly do I look up the core of the function on Windows ? sorry,
I HAVE been trying to find this for hours now
Thanks in advance,
Susanne
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