
Note: It is possible to create more than two dimensions arrays with matrix function in R.

byrow: The rows are filled from the left to the right.We use `byrow = FALSE` (default values), if we want the matrix to be filled by the columns i.e. Matrix_a <-matrix(1:10, byrow = TRUE, nrow = 5) # Construct a matrix with 5 rows that contain the numbers 1 up to 10 and byrow = TRUE Let’s construct two 5×2 matrix with a sequence of number from 1 to 10, one with byrow = TRUE and one with byrow = FALSE to see the difference. Output: # 5 2 Construct a matrix with 5 rows that contain the numbers 1 up to 10 and byrow = FALSE # Construct a matrix with 5 rows that contain the numbers 1 up to 10 and byrow = FALSE The syntax to print matrix in R using dim() is: # Print dimension of the matrix with dim() Now, let’s print dimension of the matrix in R with dim(). Below is a syntax of R print matrix dimension: # Print dimension of the matrix with dim() Matrix_b <-matrix(1:10, byrow = FALSE, nrow = 5)Īgain, print the dimension of the matrix using dim(). Note: Using command matrix_b <-matrix(1:10, byrow = FALSE, ncol = 2) will have same effect as above. You can also create a 4×3 matrix using ncol. Check an example matrix_c <-matrix(1:12, byrow = FALSE, ncol = 3)Īdd a Column to a Matrix with the cbind() R will create 3 columns and fill the row from top to bottom. You can add column to matrix R with the cbind() command. cbind() can concatenate as many matrix or columns as specified. We concatenate a third column and verify the dimension is 5×3Įxample: # concatenate c(1:5) to the matrix_a For example, our previous example created a 5×2 matrix. We can also add column to matrix R, more than one time. Let’s see the next sequence of number to the matrix_a2 matrix. matrix_a2 <-matrix(13:24, byrow = FALSE, ncol = 3)Įxample: matrix_c <-matrix(1:12, byrow = FALSE, ncol = 3) The dimension of new matrices in R will be 4×6 with number from 1 to 24.

Let’s add one row to our matrix_c matrix and verify the dimension is 5×3 matrix_c <-matrix(1:12, byrow = FALSE, ncol = 3) NOTE: The number of rows of matrices in R should be equal for cbind workĬbind()concatenate columns, rbind() appends rows. We can select elements one or many elements from a matrix in R programming by using the square brackets. This is where slicing comes into the picture. matrix_c selects the element at the first row and second column.If you might have zero or NA value in the matrix, row(distances) (or col(distances)) will not: is.na(row(distances)) + 0LĪnd one can force the entire matrix to be NA values, as a way to produce a matrix of 1's, then subtract 1: is.Matrix_c selects all elements of the first row.I hope you find this helpful and not more confusing, but here's one way to get to your end goal of populating the checkerboard structs.matrix_c selects all elements of the first column.matrix_c results in a R slice matrix with the data on the rows 1, 2, 3 and columns 2, 3. Or just (!distances) + 0L # if you don"t have zeroes in your matrix

You could convert your matrix to a logical matrix in a various ways and then add zeros, for example: is.na(distances) + 0L # if you don't have `NA` values in your matrix You could create a whole new matrix using the dimensions of your old matrix matrix(0L, nrow = dim(distances), ncol = dim(distances)) # similarly, to save a few keystrokes (because a matrix is a special case of two dimensional array) array(0L, dim(distances)) # you could preserve the structure of your old matrix using and fill it with zeroes distances <- 0L # you could simply multiply all the values by zero distances*0L # more general solution would be which will take in count NA cases too (because every number in power of zero is always equals to 1) distances^0L - 1L # some of my stuff:

I'll just put it here as there are bunch of nice answers in the comments
