cbind {spam}

Combine Sparse Matrices by Rows or Columns

Description

Take a sequence of vector, matrix or spam object arguments and combine by columns or rows, respectively.

Usage

# cbind(\dots, force64 = getOption("spam.force64"), deparse.level = 0)
# rbind(\dots, deparse.level = 0)

Arguments

...

vectors, matrices or spam objects. See ‘Details’ and ‘Value’

force64

logical vector of length 1. If TRUE, a 64-bit spam matrix is returned in any case. If FALSE, a 32-bit matrix is returned when possible.

deparse.level

for compatibility reason here. Only 0 is implemented.

Details

rbind and cbind are not exactly symmetric in how the objects are processed. The former is essentially an concatenation of the slots due to the sparse storage format. Different types of inputs are handled differently. The latter calls a Fortran routine after the input has been coerced to spam objects.

Only two objects at a time are processed. If more than two are present, a loop concatenates them successively.

A method is defined for a spam object as first argument.

Value

a spam object combining the ... arguments column-wise or row-wise. (Exception: if there are no inputs or all the inputs are NULL, the value is NULL.)

Author(s)

Reinhard Furrer

Examples

x <- cbind.spam(1:5,6)

y <- cbind(x, 7)

rbind( x, x)
# for some large matrices   t( cbind( t(x), t(x)))
# might be slightly faster: