R: Half-vectorization

vech {OpenMx} | R Documentation

## Half-vectorization

### Description

This function returns the half-vectorization of an input matrix as a column vector.

### Usage

    vech(x)

### Arguments

`x` | an input matrix.

### Details

The half-vectorization of an input matrix consists of the elements in the lower triangle of the matrix, including 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.

### See Also

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

### Examples

    vech(matrix(1:9, 3, 3))
    vech(matrix(1:12, 3, 4))

[Package OpenMx version 2.19.5 Index]