[R] Kronecker matrix product

[Berwin A Turlach]

>>>>> "RH" == Robin Hankin <r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk> writes:

    RH> I want to write a little function that takes a matrix X of
    RH> size m-by-n, and a list L of length "m", whose elements are
    RH> matrices all of which have the same number of columns but
    RH> possibly a different number of rows.

    RH> I then want to get a sort of dumbed-down kronecker product in which
    RH> X[i,j] is replaced by X[i,j]*L[[j]]

    RH> where L[[j]] is the j-th of the "m" matrices.  For example, if

    RH> X = matrix(c(1,5,0,2),2,2)

    RH> and

    RH> L[[1]] = matrix(1:4,2,2)
    RH> L[[2]] = matrix(c(1,1,1,1,1,10),ncol=2)

    RH> I want


    RH> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
    RH> [1,]    1    3    0    0
    RH> [2,]    2    4    0    0
    RH> [3,]    5    5    2    2
    RH> [4,]    5    5    2    2
    RH> [5,]    5   50    2   20

> tmp <- sapply(1:length(L), function(j, mat, list) kronecker(X[j,,drop=FALSE], L[[j]]), mat=X, list=L)
> do.call("rbind", tmp)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    1    3    0    0
[2,]    2    4    0    0
[3,]    5    5    2    2
[4,]    5    5    2    2
[5,]    5   50    2   20
> 

HTH.

Cheers,

        Berwin

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