[R] Constructing a symmetric matrix with library(corpcor)

[Jeff Newmiller]

vec2sm( r, diag = FALSE, order=rr )

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On February 21, 2016 8:16:06 PM PST, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I like to compose a symmetric matrix in the pattern as shown below (for
>3 x
>3 and 4 x 4). For a symmetric matrix of order 5, the result does not
>seem
>right. Help? It is possible to write a two-level do loop for the task,
>but
>I suppose that is less efficient.
>
>> library(corpcor)> r  <- 1:3; r[1] 1 2 3> rr <- vec2sm(r, diag = F);
>rr     [,1] [,2] [,3]
>[1,]   NA    1    2
>[2,]    1   NA    3
>[3,]    2    3   NA> rr <- rr[upper.tri(rr)]; rr[1] 1 2 3> r  <-
>vec2sm(rr, diag = F); diag(r) <- 1; r     [,1] [,2] [,3]
>[1,]    1    1    2
>[2,]    1    1    3
>[3,]    2    3    1> r  <- 1:6; r[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6> rr <- vec2sm(r, diag
>= F); rr     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
>[1,]   NA    1    2    3
>[2,]    1   NA    4    5
>[3,]    2    4   NA    6
>[4,]    3    5    6   NA> rr <- rr[upper.tri(rr)]; rr[1] 1 2 4 3 5 6>
>r  <- vec2sm(rr, diag = F); diag(r) <- 1; r     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
>[1,]    1    1    2    4
>[2,]    1    1    3    5
>[3,]    2    3    1    6
>[4,]    4    5    6    1> r  <- 1:10; r [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
>10> rr <- vec2sm(r, diag = F); rr     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
>[1,]   NA    1    2    3    4
>[2,]    1   NA    5    6    7
>[3,]    2    5   NA    8    9
>[4,]    3    6    8   NA   10
>[5,]    4    7    9   10   NA> rr <- rr[upper.tri(rr)]; rr [1]  1  2
>5  3  6  8  4  7  9 10> r  <- vec2sm(rr, diag = F); diag(r) <- 1; r
> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
>[1,]    1    1    2    5    3
>[2,]    1    1    6    8    4
>[3,]    2    6    1    7    9
>[4,]    5    8    7    1   10
>[5,]    3    4    9   10    1
>
>
>(Doesn't seem right).
>This is what I need:
>
>     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
>[1,]    1    1    2    4    7
>[2,]    1    1    3    5    8
>[3,]    2    3    1    6    9
>[4,]    4    5    6    1   10
>[5,]    7    8    9   10    1
>
>>
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