matrix-products: Matrix (Cross) Products (of Transpose)
In bedatadriven/renjin-matrix: Sparse and Dense Matrix Classes and Methods

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Methods Note See Also Examples

The basic matrix product, %*% is implemented for all our Matrix and also for sparseVector classes, fully analogously to R's base matrix and vector objects.

The functions crossprod and tcrossprod are matrix products or “cross products”, ideally implemented efficiently without computing t(.)'s unnecessarily. They also return symmetricMatrix classed matrices when easily detectable, e.g., in crossprod(m), the one argument case.

tcrossprod() takes the cross-product of the transpose of a matrix. tcrossprod(x) is formally equivalent to, but faster than, the call x %*% t(x), and so is tcrossprod(x, y) instead of x %*% t(y).

Boolean matrix products are computed via either %&% or boolArith = TRUE.

## S4 method for signature 'CsparseMatrix,diagonalMatrix'
x %*% y

## S4 method for signature 'dgeMatrix,missing'
crossprod(x, y = NULL, boolArith = NA, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'CsparseMatrix,diagonalMatrix'
crossprod(x, y = NULL, boolArith = NA, ...)
       ## .... and for many more signatures

## S4 method for signature 'CsparseMatrix,ddenseMatrix'
tcrossprod(x, y = NULL, boolArith = NA, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'TsparseMatrix,missing'
tcrossprod(x, y = NULL, boolArith = NA, ...)
       ## .... and for many more signatures

`x`	a matrix-like object
`y`	a matrix-like object, or for `[t]crossprod()` `NULL` (by default); the latter case is formally equivalent to `y = x`.
`boolArith`	`logical`, i.e., `NA`, `TRUE`, or `FALSE`. If true the result is (coerced to) a pattern matrix, i.e., `"nMatrix"`, unless there are `NA` entries and the result will be a `"lMatrix"`. If false the result is (coerced to) numeric. When `NA`, currently the default, the result is a pattern matrix when `x` and `y` are `"nsparseMatrix"` and numeric otherwise.
`...`	potentially more arguments passed to and from methods.

For some classes in the Matrix package, such as dgCMatrix, it is much faster to calculate the cross-product of the transpose directly instead of calculating the transpose first and then its cross-product.

boolArith = TRUE for regular (“non cross”) matrix products, %*% cannot be specified. Instead, we provide the %&% operator for boolean matrix products.

A Matrix object, in the one argument case of an appropriate symmetric matrix class.

%*%: signature(x = "dgeMatrix", y = "dgeMatrix"): Matrix multiplication; ditto for several other signature combinations, see showMethods("%*%", class = "dgeMatrix").
%*%: signature(x = "dtrMatrix", y = "matrix") and other signatures (use showMethods("%*%", class="dtrMatrix")): matrix multiplication. Multiplication of (matching) triangular matrices now should remain triangular (in the sense of class triangularMatrix).
crossprod: signature(x = "dgeMatrix", y = "dgeMatrix"): ditto for several other signatures, use showMethods("crossprod", class = "dgeMatrix"), matrix crossproduct, an efficient version of t(x) %*% y.
crossprod: signature(x = "CsparseMatrix", y = "missing") returns t(x) %*% x as an dsCMatrix object.
crossprod: signature(x = "TsparseMatrix", y = "missing") returns t(x) %*% x as an dsCMatrix object.
crossprod,tcrossprod: signature(x = "dtrMatrix", y = "matrix") and other signatures, see "%*%" above.

boolArith = TRUE, FALSE or NA has been newly introduced for Matrix 1.2.0 (March 2015). Its implementation may be incomplete and partly missing. Please report such omissions if detected!

Currently, boolArith = TRUE is implemnted via CsparseMatrix coercions which may be quite inefficient for dense matrices. Contributions for efficiency improvements are welcome.

tcrossprod in R's base, crossprod and %*%.

 ## A random sparse "incidence" matrix :
 m <- matrix(0, 400, 500)
 set.seed(12)
 m[runif(314, 0, length(m))] <- 1
 mm <- as(m, "dgCMatrix")
 object.size(m) / object.size(mm) # smaller by a factor of > 200

 ## tcrossprod() is very fast:
 system.time(tCmm <- tcrossprod(mm))# 0   (PIII, 933 MHz)
 system.time(cm <- crossprod(t(m))) # 0.16
 system.time(cm. <- tcrossprod(m))  # 0.02

 stopifnot(cm == as(tCmm, "matrix"))

 ## show sparse sub matrix
 tCmm[1:16, 1:30]