Re: [R] Spare matrix multiplication

2011-01-29 Thread Feng Li
I meant "sparse matrix", sorry for the typo. Feng On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Feng Li wrote: > Dear R, > > I have a simple question concerning with a special case of sparse matrix > multiplications. Say A is a 200-by-1 dense matrix. B is a 1-by-1 > block- diagonal matrix, and e

[R] Spare matrix multiplication

2011-01-29 Thread Feng Li
Dear R, I have a simple question concerning with a special case of spare matrix multiplications. Say A is a 200-by-1 dense matrix. B is a 1-by-1 block- diagonal matrix, and each diagonal block B_i is 100-by-100. The usual way I did A%*%B will take about 30 seconds which is to time cons