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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>R: Construct pdMat Objects</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css" /> </head><body> <table width="100%" summary="page for pdConstruct {nlme}"><tr><td>pdConstruct {nlme}</td><td style="text-align: right;">R Documentation</td></tr></table> <h2>Construct pdMat Objects</h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>This function is an alternative constructor for the <code>pdMat</code> class associated with <code>object</code> and is mostly used internally in other functions. See the documentation on the principal constructor function, generally with the same name as the <code>pdMat</code> class of object. </p> <h3>Usage</h3> <pre> pdConstruct(object, value, form, nam, data, ...) </pre> <h3>Arguments</h3> <table summary="R argblock"> <tr valign="top"><td><code>object</code></td> <td> <p>an object inheriting from class <code>pdMat</code>, representing a positive definite matrix.</p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><code>value</code></td> <td> <p>an optional initialization value, which can be any of the following: a <code>pdMat</code> object, a positive-definite matrix, a one-sided linear formula (with variables separated by <code>+</code>), a vector of character strings, or a numeric vector. Defaults to <code>numeric(0)</code>, corresponding to an uninitialized object.</p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><code>form</code></td> <td> <p>an optional one-sided linear formula specifying the row/column names for the matrix represented by <code>object</code>. Because factors may be present in <code>form</code>, the formula needs to be evaluated on a data.frame to resolve the names it defines. This argument is ignored when <code>value</code> is a one-sided formula. Defaults to <code>NULL</code>.</p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><code>nam</code></td> <td> <p>an optional vector of character strings specifying the row/column names for the matrix represented by object. It must have length equal to the dimension of the underlying positive-definite matrix and unreplicated elements. This argument is ignored when <code>value</code> is a vector of character strings. Defaults to <code>NULL</code>.</p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><code>data</code></td> <td> <p>an optional data frame in which to evaluate the variables named in <code>value</code> and <code>form</code>. It is used to obtain the levels for <code>factors</code>, which affect the dimensions and the row/column names of the underlying matrix. If <code>NULL</code>, no attempt is made to obtain information on <code>factors</code> appearing in the formulas. Defaults to the parent frame from which the function was called.</p> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td><code>...</code></td> <td> <p>optional arguments for some methods.</p> </td></tr> </table> <h3>Value</h3> <p>a <code>pdMat</code> object representing a positive-definite matrix, inheriting from the same classes as <code>object</code>. </p> <h3>Author(s)</h3> <p>José Pinheiro and Douglas Bates <a href="mailto:bates@stat.wisc.edu">bates@stat.wisc.edu</a></p> <h3>See Also</h3> <p><code><a href="pdCompSymm.html">pdCompSymm</a></code>, <code><a href="pdDiag.html">pdDiag</a></code>, <code><a href="pdIdent.html">pdIdent</a></code>, <code><a href="pdNatural.html">pdNatural</a></code>, <code><a href="pdSymm.html">pdSymm</a></code></p> <h3>Examples</h3> <pre> pd1 <- pdSymm() pdConstruct(pd1, diag(1:4)) </pre> <hr /><div style="text-align: center;">[Package <em>nlme</em> version 3.1-139 <a href="00Index.html">Index</a>]</div> </body></html>