R: Combine spam Matrices by Rows or Columns

cbind {spam} | R Documentation

## Combine spam 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:

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