how to read this matrix into R

rongguiwong <0034058 at fudan.edu.cn> writes:

the following the the lower.tri matrix in a file named luxry.car
and i want to  read it in R as a lower.tri matrix.how can i do?
i have try to use help.search("read"),but no result what i want.

Here's one way:

x <- scan()

1:   1.000
2:   0.591  1.000
4:   0.356  0.350  1.000
7:  -0.098  0.072  0.380  1.000
11:   0.573  0.408  0.382  0.062  1.000
16:   0.156  0.232  0.517  0.424  0.303  1.000
22:   0.400  0.414  0.611  0.320  0.401  0.479  1.000
29:   0.282  0.375  0.512  0.346  0.308  0.463  0.605  1.000
37:   0.519  0.484  0.467  0.167  0.455  0.311  0.574  0.557  1.000
46:
Read 45 items

m <- matrix(0,9,9)
m[upper.tri(m,diag=TRUE)] <- x # Yes, upper!
m <- t(m)
m[upper.tri(m,diag=TRUE)] <- x 

(Assuming that you really want a symmetric matrix. If you want just
the lower triangle, simply omit the last line.)

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