It was suggested at last week's developers meeting that it could be useful to use the extract operator for MxMatrix objects. So I've implemented foo[x,y] and foo[x,y] <- z where 'foo' is a MxMatrix object. The new feature has been checked into the subversion repository.
Some notes about foo[x,y]
- returns a MxMatrix object
- applies [x,y] extraction to the components of foo (values, labels, free, lbound, ubound)
- returns a MxMatrix of the same type as foo, unless that would cause an error. In cases of errors, return a Full matrix.
- returns a MxMatrix with the same 'name' as foo. Use foo[x,y,name='bar'] to change the name of the return value.
Some notes about foo[x,y] <- z
- z must be a MxMatrix object.
- applies [x,y] replacement to the components of foo using the components of z
- any dimnames of the right-hand side (z) are dropped. This is how R behaves on regular matrix objects
- ignores the name of the right-hand side (z)
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