Learn R Programming

Matrix (version 0.3-8)

lu.Matrix: Triangular (LU) Decomposition of a Matrix

Description

Computes the LU decomposition of a matrix.

Usage

lu.Matrix(x, norm.comp = T)

Arguments

x
numeric or complex matrix (does not have to be square). Missing values (NAs) are not allowed.
norm.comp
a logical vector of length two telling whether or not to compute the one and/or infinity norm of the matrix, respectively. These norms should be computed if solve is going to eventually be applied to the factorization with condit

Value

  • The LU decomposition of x is returned as an object of class "lu.Matrix", which is a list with components "l", a unit lower triangular matrix, "u", an upper triangular matrix, and "permutation", a row permutation matrix. The one or infinity norm is included as an attribute, if requested. and/or infinity norms of the matrix if requested (used for condition estimation).

Details

This function uses the Lapack subroutine DGETRF to form an LU factorization of a matrix X. The factorization has the form X = P * L * U where P is a permutation matrix, L is lower triangular with unit diagonal elements (lower trapezoidal if m > n), and U is upper triangular (upper trapezoidal if m < n).

References

Anderson, E., et al. (1994). LAPACK User's Guide, 2nd edition, SIAM, Philadelphia.

Examples

Run this code
x <- Matrix((1:16)^2, nrow = 4, ncol = 4)
lu.Matrix(x)

Run the code above in your browser using DataLab