R/determinants.R
minor.Rd
Returns the minor of element (i,j) of the square matrix A, i.e., the determinant of the sub-matrix that results when row i and column j are deleted.
minor(A, i, j)
a square matrix
row index
column index
the minor of A[i,j]
rowMinors for all minors of a given row
rowMinors
Other determinants: Det(), adjoint(), cofactor(), rowCofactors(), rowMinors()
Det()
adjoint()
cofactor()
rowCofactors()
rowMinors()
Michael Friendly
M <- matrix(c(4, -12, -4, 2, 1, 3, -1, -3, 2), 3, 3, byrow=TRUE) minor(M, 1, 1) #> [1] 11 minor(M, 1, 2) #> [1] 7 minor(M, 1, 3) #> [1] -5