From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Mon Aug  7 13:54:08 2000
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:54:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] Inverting matrix...
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>>>>> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no> writes:

    Kjetil> Dear all, Either I'm being totally blind now (as you know, the
    Kjetil> eyes are the first thing that is blinded :-)), or something is
    Kjetil> missing in "An Introduction to R". The section heading of
    Kjetil> section 5.7.1 is "Multiplication, inversion and solving linear
    Kjetil> equations", and since I was looking for the canonical way of
    Kjetil> inverting a matrix, this was the place to look. However, I
    Kjetil> found that solve() was not mentioned, I found that
    Kjetil> strange... Was something forgotten here? :-)

    Kjetil> I found the answer to my question in V&R, so don't be bothered
    Kjetil> about that, but I thought you'd like to be told when things are
    Kjetil> unclear in the docs.

Thanks a lot Kjetil!

I've just committed a fix to this "documentation bug" for R 1.1.1, i.e.
R-release/patched

Martin
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[Rd] Inverting matrix...
Martin Maechler