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Basics
?Arithmetic
?Special
Linear Algebra
Vectors
The inner product
The inner product is also called the dot product or the scalar product. It is the sum of the item-by-item product.
> u <- rep(3,3)
> v <- 1:3
> u%*%v # the inner product
[,1]
[1,] 18
The outer product
The outer product is also called the cross product or the vector product. It is a matrix resulting from the product of the elements of the two vectors.
> v <- rep(3,3)
> u <- 1:3
> u%o%v # The outer product
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 3 3 3
[2,] 6 6 6
[3,] 9 9 9
Matrix Algebra
If you want to create a new matrix, one way is to use the matrix() function. You have to enter a vector of data, the number of rows and/or columns and finally you can specify if you want R to read your vector by row or by column (the default option) with byrow. You can also combine vectors using cbind() or rbind(). The dimension of a matrix can be obtained using the dim() function or alternatively nrow() and ncol().
> matrix(data = NA, nrow = 5, ncol = 5, byrow = T)
> matrix(data = 1:15, nrow = 5, ncol = 5, byrow = T)
> v1 <- 1:5
> v2 <- 5:1
> cbind(v1,v2)
> rbind(v1,v2)
> dim(X)
> nrow(X)
> ncol(X)
Some special matrix
The identity matrix has ones on the diagonal and zeros outside the diagonal.
eye() (matlab)
diag(1,nrow=10,ncol=10)
diag(rep(1,10))
J matrix is full of ones
ones() (matlab)
A matrix full of zeros
zeros() (matlab)
> library(matlab)
> eye(3)
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 0 0
[2,] 0 1 0
[3,] 0 0 1
> ones(3)
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 1 1
[2,] 1 1 1
[3,] 1 1 1
> zeros(3)
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0 0 0
[2,] 0 0 0
[3,] 0 0 0
Diagonal matrix
> diag(3)
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 0 0
[2,] 0 1 0
[3,] 0 0 1
Upper triangular
> round(upper.tri(matrix(1, n, n)))
for n=3
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0 1 1
[2,] 0 0 1
[3,] 0 0 0
If you also need the diagonal of one's
> round(upper.tri(matrix(1, 3, 3), diag = TRUE))
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 1 1
[2,] 0 1 1
[3,] 0 0 1
Lower triangular
Same as upper triangular but using lower.tri instead
create an Hilbert matrix using hilbert() (fUtilities).
Matrix calculations
compute a matrix multiplication X%*%Y.
> b <- matrix(nrow = 2, ncol = 2, c(1, 2, 3, 4))
> a <- matrix(nrow = 2, ncol = 2, c(1, 0, 0, -1))
> a
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 0
[2,] 0 -1
> b
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 3
[2,] 2 4
> a%*%b
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 3
[2,] -2 -4
> b%*%a
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 -3
[2,] 2 -4
compute the Kronecker product using %x% or kron() (fUtilities).
> M <- matrix(rep(2,4),nrow = 2)
> M
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 2 2
[2,] 2 2
> I <- eye(2)
> I
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 0
[2,] 0 1
> I %x% M
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] 2 2 0 0
[2,] 2 2 0 0
[3,] 0 0 2 2
[4,] 0 0 2 2
> library(fUtilities)
> kron(I,M)
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] 2 2 0 0
[2,] 2 2 0 0
[3,] 0 0 2 2
[4,] 0 0 2 2
Matrix transposition
Transpose the matrix
> t(M)
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 0 1
[2,] 0 1 2
[3,] 0 0 1
The trace and determinant of a matrix
compute the trace of a matrix using tr() (fUtilities)
returns the rank of a matrix using rk() (fBasics:)
Matrix inversion
Invert a matrix using solve() or inv() (fUtilities). We can also compute the generalized inverse using ginv() in the MASS package.
> M <- cbind(c(1,0,1),c(0,1,2),c(0,0,1))
> solve(M)
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 0 0
[2,] 0 1 0
[3,] -1 -2 1
> solve(M)%*%M
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 0 0
[2,] 0 1 0
[3,] 0 0 1
Solving a linear equation
> m=matrix(nrow=2,ncol=2,c(1,-.8,1,.2))
> m
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1.0 1.0
[2,] -0.8 0.2
>
> l=matrix(c(1.0+25.0/18,25.0/18.0))
> l
[,1]
[1,] 2.388889
[2,] 1.388889
>
> k=solve(m,l)
> k
[,1]
[1,] -0.9111111
[2,] 3.3000000
>
> m%*%k #checking the answer
[,1]
[1,] 2.388889
[2,] 1.388889
>
Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
> eigen(M)
$values
[1] 1 1 1
$vectors
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0 2.220446e-16 0.000000e+00
[2,] 0 0.000000e+00 1.110223e-16
[3,] 1 -1.000000e+00 -1.000000e+00
Misc
compute the norm of a matrix using norm() (fUtilities).
check if a matrix is positive definite isPositiveDefinite() (fUtilities).
make a matrix positive definite makePositiveDefinite() (fUtilities).
computes row statistics and column statistics (fUtilities).
extract the upper and the lower part of a matrix triang() and Triang() (fUtilities).
See also the matrix, matlab, matrixcalc, matrixStats packages.
Analysis
Logarithm and Exponents
We have the power function 10^3 or 10**3 , the logarithm and the exponential log(2.71), log10(10),exp(1).
> 10^3 # exponent
[1] 1000
> 10**3 # exponent
[1] 1000
> exp(1) # exponential
[1] 2.718282
> log(2.71) # natural logarithm
[1] 0.9969486
> log10(1000) # base 10 logarithm
[1] 3
> log(1000,base = 10) # base 10 logarithm
[1] 3
Polynomial equations
To solve , where are given numbers, use the command
> polyroot(c(n,...,b,a))
So, for example, to calculate the roots of the equation one would do as follows:
> polyroot(c(-3,-5,2))
[1] -0.5+0i 3.0-0i
and the solution can be read to be .
See also polynom and multipol packages
Derivatives
Symbolic calculations
R can give the derivative of an expression. You need to convert your function as an expression using the expression() function. Otherwise you get an error message.
Here are some examples :
> D(expression(x^n),"x")
x^(n - 1) * n
> D(expression(exp(a*x)),"x")
exp(a * x) * a
> D(expression(1/x),"x")
-(1/x^2)
> D(expression(x^3),"x")
3 * x^2
> D(expression(pnorm(x)),"x")
dnorm(x)
> D(expression(dnorm(x)),"x")
-(x * dnorm(x))
Numerical approximation
numDeriv package
Integration
R can perform one dimensional integration. For example we can integrate over the density of the normal distribution between and
> integrate(dnorm,-Inf,Inf)
1 with absolute error < 9.4e-05
> integrate(dnorm,-1.96,1.96)
0.9500042 with absolute error < 1.0e-11
> integrate(dnorm,-1.64,1.64)
0.8989948 with absolute error < 6.8e-14
# we can also store the result in an object
> ci90 <- integrate(dnorm,-1.64,1.64)
> ci90$value
[1] 0.8989948
> integrate(dnorm,-1.64,1.64)$value
[1] 0.8989948
see the adapt package for multivariate integration.
> library(adapt)
> ?adapt
> ir2pi <- 1/sqrt(2*pi)
> fred <- function(z) { ir2pi^length(z) * exp(-0.5 * sum(z * z))}
>
> adapt(2, lo = c(-5,-5), up = c(5,5), functn = fred)
value relerr minpts lenwrk ifail
1.039222 0.0007911264 231 73 0
> adapt(2, lo = c(-5,-5), up = c(5,5), functn = fred, eps = 1e-4)
value relerr minpts lenwrk ifail
1.000237 1.653498e-05 655 143 0
> adapt(2, lo = c(-5,-5), up = c(5,5), functn = fred, eps = 1e-6)
value relerr minpts lenwrk ifail
1.000039 3.22439e-07 1719 283 0
See also integrate.gh() in the ecoreg package.
Probability
The number of combination of length k within n numbers :
> choose(100, 5)
[1] 75287520
Union and intersection
> union(1:10, 5:7)
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> intersect(1:10, 5:7)
[1] 5 6 7
Arithmetics
The factorial function
factorial returns the factorial of an integer. This can also be computed using the prod() (product) applied to the vector of integers between 1 and the number of interest.
> factorial(3)
[1] 6
> prod(1:3)
[1] 6
Note that by convention . factorial() returns 1 in 0. This is not the case with the prod() functions.
> factorial(0)
[1] 1
> prod(0)
[1] 0
Factorial numbers can be very large and cannot be computed for high values.
> factorial(170)
[1] 7.257416e+306
> factorial(171)
[1] Inf
Message d'avis :
In factorial(171) : value out of range in 'gammafn'
The modulo function and euclidian division
Modulo and integer division (i.e. euclidean division)
> 5%%2
[1] 1
>5%/%2
[1] 2
Note: R is affected by the problem with non integer numbers and euclidian divisions.
> .5%/%.1 # we get 4 instead of 5
[1] 4
> .5%%.1 # we get .1 instead of 0
[1] 0.1
Geometry
pi the constant
cos(), sin(), tan() the trigonometric functions.
Symbolic calculus
rSymPy (rsympy) provides sympy (link) functions in R.
If you want to do more symbolic calculus, see MaximaMaxima is open source http://maxima.sourceforge.net/, SAGESAGE is an open source package which includes R and Maxima : http://www.sagemath.org/, MathematicaMathematica is not open source http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
See also
The following command gives help on special mathematical functions related to the beta and gamma functions.
?Special
References
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