On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj <sdorai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does this help? > > A <- matrix(0, 6, 6) > vec <- 1:5 > A[row(A) == col(A) + 1] <- vec
Maybe, more simply: A <- matrix(0, 6, 6) vec <- 1:5 diag(A[-1,]) <- vec Paul ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.