rank of a matrix

mingan wrote on 5/4/2005 8:54 AM:

how do I check the rank of a matrix ?

say

A=  1   0   0
    0   1   0

then rank(A)=2

what is this function?

thanks

 I did try help.search("rank"), but all the returned help information 
seem irrelevant to what I want.

 I would like to know how people search for help information like this.

rank(base)              Sample Ranks
SignRank(stats)         Distribution of the Wilcoxon Signed Rank
                       Statistic
Wilcoxon(stats)         Distribution of the Wilcoxon Rank Sum
                       Statistic
friedman.test(stats)    Friedman Rank Sum Test
kruskal.test(stats)     Kruskal-Wallis Rank Sum Test
pairwise.wilcox.test(stats)
                       Pairwise Wilcoxon rank sum tests
wilcox.test(stats)      Wilcoxon Rank Sum and Signed Rank Tests

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See ?qr or ?svd.

tol <- 1e-7
qr(A, tol)$rank
sum(svd(A)$d > tol)

--sundar

rank of a matrix

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