On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Markku Karhunen<markku.karhu...@helsinki.fi> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know, what is going on here? > >> diag(sqrt(1)) > > [,1] > [1,] 1 >> >> diag(sqrt(0.3333)) > > <0 x 0 matrix> >> >> sqrt(1) > > [1] 1 >> >> sqrt(0.3333) > > [1] 0.5773214 >
Read the help for diag yet? 'diag' has four distinct usages: ... 3. 'x' is a scalar (length-one vector) and the only argument it a square identity matrix of size given by the scalar. ... So diag(0.1) becomes diag(0) which is a 0-size matrix. Try diag(2.4) Barry ______________________________________________ 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.