Hi Kevin,

Take a look at

?kronecker

HTH,
Jorge


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Kevin Ummel <> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for a way to 'explode' a matrix like this:
>
> > matrix(1:4,2,2)
>     [,1] [,2]
> [1,]    1    3
> [2,]    2    4
>
> into a matrix like this:
>
> > matrix(c(1,1,2,2,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4),4,4)
>     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
> [1,]    1    1    3    3
> [2,]    1    1    3    3
> [3,]    2    2    4    4
> [4,]    2    2    4    4
>
> My current kludge is this:
>
> v1=rep(1:4,each=2,times=2)
> v2=v1[order(rep(1:2,each=4,times=2))]
> matrix(v2,4,4)
>
> But I'm hoping there's a more efficient solution that I'm not aware of.
>
> Many thanks,
> Kevin
>
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