Re: [Rd] matrix bands

2011-08-26 Thread Jeremy David Silver
luded in my last post filled this gap. If Matrix::band and Matrix::bandSparse can set/get bands in this way, I would like to see how this can be done. If not, then perhaps they could be extended to achieve this functionality. On 2011-08-26 14:08, Martin Maechler wrote: Jeremy David Silver

[Rd] matrix bands

2011-08-26 Thread Jeremy David Silver
Dear R developers, I was looking for a function analogous to base::diag() for getting and setting bands of a matrix. The closest I could find was Matrix::band(), but this was not exactly what I wanted for two reasons. Firstly, Matrix::band() returns a matrix rather than just the specified band