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blockDiag

Block Diagonal Matrix

Description

Form a block diagonal matrix from the given blocks.

Usage

blockDiag(...)

Arguments

...

numeric matrices

Details

This function is sometimes useful for constructing a design matrix for a disconnected two-color microarray experiment in conjunction with modelMatrix.

Value

A block diagonal matrix with dimensions equal to the sum of the input dimensions

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

See Also

Examples

a <- matrix(1,3,2)
b <- matrix(2,2,2)
blockDiag(a,b)
limma

Linear Models for Microarray Data

v3.46.0
GPL (>=2)
Authors
Gordon Smyth [cre,aut], Yifang Hu [ctb], Matthew Ritchie [ctb], Jeremy Silver [ctb], James Wettenhall [ctb], Davis McCarthy [ctb], Di Wu [ctb], Wei Shi [ctb], Belinda Phipson [ctb], Aaron Lun [ctb], Natalie Thorne [ctb], Alicia Oshlack [ctb], Carolyn de Graaf [ctb], Yunshun Chen [ctb], Mette Langaas [ctb], Egil Ferkingstad [ctb], Marcus Davy [ctb], Francois Pepin [ctb], Dongseok Choi [ctb]
Initial release
2020-10-19

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