det
calculates the determinant (or its logarithm) of a matrix## S3 method for class 'Matrix':
det(x, logarithm = TRUE, ...)
TRUE
, the default, the logarithm of the
determinant is returned.
When FALSE
, the determinant of
x
is returned.det.default
returns a numeric value. Other det
methods return a list with two elements
logarithm
argument is included as an
attribute.}det
is a generic function with special methods for different types
of matrices or decompositions.
Use methods("det")
to list all the methods for the
det
generic.
The det
function from the base R package has a slightly
different calling sequence. In particular, it does not have a
logarithm
argument and always returns the determinant, never
the logarithm of the determinant. It is used as the default method for
the generic det
function defined here. Be aware that the
logarithm
argument will only have an effect when det
is called on objects that inherit from the Matrix
class.h9 <- hilbert(9)
det(h9)
det(h9, log = FALSE)
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