[R] duplicate rows in a matrix

[Juan Manuel Barreneche]

My sugestion (for an alphabetically ordered output)

AA <- rbind(A,A)
AA <- AA[order(AA[,1]), ] ## so your matrix gets alphabetically ordered

JM


On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 09:04 -0700, Silvia Lipski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there a fast way to duplicate rows in a matrix?
> I would like to do the following:
> 
> change a matrix A like:
>      [,1] [,2] 
>  [1,] Kevin 1
>  [2,] Alf 2
> 
> into :
>      [,1] [,2] 
>  [1,] Kevin 1
>  [2,] Kevin 1
>  [3,] Alf 2
>  [4,] Alf 2
> 
> i.e. double all rows. The only way I could think off
> was: rbind(A[1,],A[1,],A[2,],A[2,]) - which is really
> impractible, of course.
> 
> Can anyone help, please?
> Thank you,
> Silvia
> 
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