[R] Generating a sequence of diagonal matrices

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Meddee,

Try this:

dmat <- lapply(1:100, function(d) diag(d, 2))

That will give you a list of all 100 matrices.

Cheers,

Josh

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:00 PM, meddee <meddee1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to generate a sequence of diagonal matrices.
>
> In the scalar case I would use something like, seq(0,100,by=1).
>
> How do I generalise the above for , say a 2 dimensional diagonal matrix. In
> other words how do I produce the series of diagonal matrices {
> diag(0,2),diag(1,2), diag(2,2),...,diag(100,2)}?
>
> Thanks
> Meddee
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