[R] Converting a Matrix to a Vector

[Patrizio Frederic]

try also

m <- matrix( runif(5^2), nrow=5, dimnames = Names<- list(
c("A","B","C","D","E"),
 c("O","P","Q","R","S") ) )

data.frame(expand.grid(Names[[1]],Names[[2]]),as.numeric(m))
data.frame(code=outer(Names[[1]],Names[[2]],paste,sep=".")[1:25],num=as.numeric(m))


Patrizio


2009/3/25 jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com>:
> Use the 'reshape' package:
>
>> library(reshape)
>> melt(m)
>   X1 X2      value
> 1   A  O 0.26550866
> 2   B  O 0.37212390
> 3   C  O 0.57285336
> 4   D  O 0.90820779
> 5   E  O 0.20168193
> 6   A  P 0.89838968
> 7   B  P 0.94467527
> 8   C  P 0.66079779
> 9   D  P 0.62911404
> 10  E  P 0.06178627
> 11  A  Q 0.20597457
> 12  B  Q 0.17655675
> 13  C  Q 0.68702285
> 14  D  Q 0.38410372
> 15  E  Q 0.76984142
> 16  A  R 0.49769924
> 17  B  R 0.71761851
> 18  C  R 0.99190609
> 19  D  R 0.38003518
> 20  E  R 0.77744522
> 21  A  S 0.93470523
> 22  B  S 0.21214252
> 23  C  S 0.65167377
> 24  D  S 0.12555510
> 25  E  S 0.26722067
>>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Ken-JP <kfmfe04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Say I have:
>>
>>> set.seed( 1 )
>>> m <- matrix( runif(5^2), nrow=5, dimnames = list( c("A","B","C","D","E"),
>>> c("O","P","Q","R","S") ) )
>>> m
>>          O          P         Q         R         S
>> A 0.2655087 0.89838968 0.2059746 0.4976992 0.9347052
>> B 0.3721239 0.94467527 0.1765568 0.7176185 0.2121425
>> C 0.5728534 0.66079779 0.6870228 0.9919061 0.6516738
>> D 0.9082078 0.62911404 0.3841037 0.3800352 0.1255551
>> E 0.2016819 0.06178627 0.7698414 0.7774452 0.2672207
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I want to create a vector v from matrix m that looks like this:
>>
>> A.O 0.2655087
>> B.O 0.3721239
>>
>> v <- as.vector( m ) almost gives me what I want, but then I need to take
>> combinations of colnames( m ) and rownames( m ) to get my labels and hope
>> they match up in order: if not, manipulate the order.  This approach feels
>> kludgy...
>>
>> Is this the right approach or is there a better way?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>
>
>
> --
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