Re: [R] eigenvalues and correlation matrices

2011-05-27 Thread dM/
Thanks Sarah. Silly mistake. I wrote the syntax when testing the correlation matrix, hence the symmetric = TRUE statement. I then thought, hang on a minute; I better check that and forgot to unwind the condition. At least I'm not going mad! On May 27, 8:40 pm, Sarah Goslee wrote: > Hi, > > Ho

Re: [R] eigenvalues and correlation matrices

2011-05-27 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi, How about because of this: > #calculate the eigenvalues > eigen(testmatrix,symmetric = TRUE,only.value=TRUE) Your matrix isn't symmetric. If you claim that it is, R discards the upper triangle without checking. You really want this: > testmatrix <- matrix(c(2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, -1, 1, 2), byro