R: Inverse Strict Half-vectorization

vechs2full {OpenMx} | R Documentation

## Inverse Strict Half-vectorization

### Description

This function returns the symmetric matrix constructed from a strict half-vectorization.

### Usage

    vechs2full(x)

### Arguments

`x` | an input single column or single row matrix.

### Details

The strict half-vectorization of an input matrix consists of the elements in the lower triangle of the matrix, excluding the elements along the diagonal of the matrix, as a column vector. The column vector is created by traversing the matrix in column-major order. The inverse strict half-vectorization takes a vector and reconstructs a symmetric matrix such that `vechs2full(vechs(x))` is equal to `x` with zero along the diagonal if `x` is symmetric.

Note that very few vectors have the correct number of elements to construct a symmetric matrix. For example, vectors with 1, 3, 6, 10, and 15 elements can be used to make a symmetric matrix, but none of the other numbers between 1 and 15 can. An error is thrown if the number of elements in `x` cannot be used to make a symmetric matrix.

### See Also

`vech2full`, `vech`, `vechs`, `rvectorize`, `cvectorize`

### Examples

    vechs2full(1:10)

    matrix(1:16, 4, 4)
    vechs(matrix(1:16, 4, 4))
    vechs2full(vechs(matrix(1:16, 4, 4)))

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