| matrix | R Documentation |
matrix creates a matrix from the given set of values.
as.matrix attempts to turn its argument into a matrix.
is.matrix tests if its argument is a (strict) matrix.
matrix(data = NA, nrow = 1, ncol = 1, byrow = FALSE,
dimnames = NULL)
as.matrix(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
as.matrix(x, rownames.force = NA, ...)
is.matrix(x)
data |
an optional data vector (including a list or
|
nrow |
the desired number of rows. |
ncol |
the desired number of columns. |
byrow |
logical. If |
dimnames |
A |
x |
an R object. |
... |
additional arguments to be passed to or from methods. |
rownames.force |
logical indicating if the resulting matrix
should have character (rather than |
If one of nrow or ncol is not given, an attempt is
made to infer it from the length of data and the other
parameter. If neither is given, a one-column matrix is returned.
If there are too few elements in data to fill the matrix,
then the elements in data are recycled. If data has
length zero, NA of an appropriate type is used for atomic
vectors (0 for raw vectors) and NULL for lists.
is.matrix returns TRUE if x is a vector and has a
"dim" attribute of length 2 and FALSE otherwise.
Note that a data.frame is not a matrix by this
test. The function is generic: you can write methods to handle
specific classes of objects, see InternalMethods.
as.matrix is a generic function. The method for data frames
will return a character matrix if there is only atomic columns and any
non-(numeric/logical/complex) column, applying as.vector
to factors and format to other non-character columns.
Otherwise, the usual coercion hierarchy (logical < integer < double <
complex) will be used, e.g., all-logical data frames will be coerced
to a logical matrix, mixed logical-integer will give a integer matrix,
etc.
The default method for as.matrix calls as.vector(x), and
hence e.g. coerces factors to character vectors.
When coercing a vector, it produces a one-column matrix, and promotes the names (if any) of the vector to the rownames of the matrix.
is.matrix is a primitive function.
The print method for a matrix gives a rectangular layout with
dimnames or indices. For a list matrix, the entries of length not
one are printed in the form integer,7 indicating the type
and length.
If you just want to convert a vector to a matrix, something like
dim(x) <- c(nx, ny) dimnames(x) <- list(row_names, col_names)
will avoid duplicating x and preserve
class(x) which may be useful, e.g.,
for Date objects.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
data.matrix, which attempts to convert to a numeric
matrix.
A matrix is the special case of a two-dimensional array.
Since R 4.0.0, inherits(m, "array") is true for a
matrix m.
is.matrix(as.matrix(1:10))
!is.matrix(warpbreaks) # data.frame, NOT matrix!
warpbreaks[1:10,]
as.matrix(warpbreaks[1:10,]) # using as.matrix.data.frame(.) method
## Example of setting row and column names
mdat <- matrix(c(1,2,3, 11,12,13), nrow = 2, ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE,
dimnames = list(c("row1", "row2"),
c("C.1", "C.2", "C.3")))
mdat
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