To combine matrices by columns in R, you can use the cbind()
function. This function takes two or more matrices as arguments and combines them by columns, resulting in a new matrix where the columns of the input matrices are concatenated side by side.
In this example,
matrix1
with the values from 1 to 6 arranged in 2 rows and 3 columns using the matrix()
function. The matrix()
function takes a vector of values and the arguments nrow
and ncol
to specify the number of rows and columns respectively.matrix2
with the values from 7 to 12 arranged in 2 rows and 3 columns using the matrix()
function.cbind()
function to combine matrix1
and matrix2
by columns. This function concatenates the columns of matrix1
and matrix2
side by side, resulting in a new matrix named combined_matrix
.cbind()
function returns a new matrix with the combined columns of the input matrices.combined_matrix
to standard output to see the combined result.matrix1 <- matrix(1:6, nrow = 2, ncol = 3)
matrix2 <- matrix(7:12, nrow = 2, ncol = 3)
combined_matrix <- cbind(matrix1, matrix2)
print(combined_matrix)
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] 1 3 5 7 9 11 [2,] 2 4 6 8 10 12
In this example,
matrix1
with the values from 1 to 4 arranged in 2 rows and 2 columns using the matrix()
function. The matrix()
function takes a vector of values and the arguments nrow
and ncol
to specify the number of rows and columns respectively.matrix2
with the values from 5 to 8 arranged in 2 rows and 2 columns using the matrix()
function.matrix3
with the values from 9 to 12 arranged in 2 rows and 2 columns using the matrix()
function.cbind()
function to combine matrix1
, matrix2
, and matrix3
by columns. This function concatenates the columns of the three matrices side by side, resulting in a new matrix named combined_matrix
.cbind()
function returns a new matrix with the combined columns of the input matrices.combined_matrix
to standard output to see the combined result.matrix1 <- matrix(1:4, nrow = 2, ncol = 2)
matrix2 <- matrix(5:8, nrow = 2, ncol = 2)
matrix3 <- matrix(9:12, nrow = 2, ncol = 2)
combined_matrix <- cbind(matrix1, matrix2, matrix3)
print(combined_matrix)
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] 1 3 5 7 9 11 [2,] 2 4 6 8 10 12
In this example,
matrix1
with the values from 1 to 9 arranged in 3 rows and 3 columns using the matrix()
function. The matrix()
function takes a vector of values and the arguments nrow
and ncol
to specify the number of rows and columns respectively.matrix2
with the values from 10 to 15 arranged in 3 rows and 2 columns using the matrix()
function.cbind()
function to combine matrix1
and matrix2
by columns. This function concatenates the columns of matrix1
and matrix2
side by side, resulting in a new matrix named combined_matrix
.cbind()
function returns a new matrix with the combined columns of the input matrices.combined_matrix
to standard output to see the combined result.matrix1 <- matrix(1:9, nrow = 3, ncol = 3)
matrix2 <- matrix(10:15, nrow = 3, ncol = 2)
combined_matrix <- cbind(matrix1, matrix2)
print(combined_matrix)
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 4 7 10 13 [2,] 2 5 8 11 14 [3,] 3 6 9 12 15
In this tutorial, we learned How to Combine Matrices by Columns in R language with well detailed examples.