[R] Row-wise kronecker product with Matrix package

[ilai]

Maybe one of these will improve:
>help.search('kronecker')
...
spam::kronecker         Kronecker Products on Sparse Matrices
spam::spam.class        Class "spam"
base::kronecker         Kronecker Products on Arrays
Matrix::kronecker-methods
                        Methods for Function 'kronecker()' in Package
                        'Matrix'

I doubt it because they will calculate the "full" Kronecker prod and
it will be up to you to index the rows, but you never know...

 system.time(A[, rep(seq(ncol(A)), each = ncol(B))] *
B[,rep(seq(ncol(B)),ncol(A))])
   user  system elapsed
  0.016   0.000   0.019
> system.time(kronecker(A,B)[c(1,4),])
   user  system elapsed
  0.008   0.000   0.008
> system.time(spam::kronecker(A,B)[c(1,4),])
   user  system elapsed
  0.008   0.000   0.009

Cheers

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ally <a.rushworth at stats.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to calculate the row-wise kronecker product A \Box B of two
> sparse matrices A and B, and am struggling to find a quick way to do this
> that takes advantage of sparseness.  I thought a good idea would be to use
> "rep" to construct 2 matrices of the same dimension of the end product, and
> multiply these two together:
>
> library(Matrix)
> A<-Matrix(c(1,0,0,0,0,1,2,0), 2, 4)
> B<-Matrix(c(2,5,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0), 2, 5)
>
> A[, rep(seq(ncol(A)), each = ncol(B))] * B[, rep(seq(ncol(B)),ncol(A))]
>
> This works, but for much larger problems is slow (compared to keeping A and
> B dense).  I was wondering why this happens, and whether there might be a
> way around it?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>
> Alastair
>
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