deletediagonals {pcaMethods} | R Documentation

## Delete diagonals

### Description

Replace a diagonal of elements of a matrix with NA

### Usage

    deletediagonals(x, diagonals = 1)

### Arguments

`x` | The matrix
`diagonals` | The diagonal to be replaced, i.e. the first, second and so on when looking at the fat version of the matrix (transposed or not) counting from the bottom. Can be a vector to delete more than one diagonal.

### Details

Used for creating artifical missing values in matrices without causing any full row or column to be completely missing

### Value

The original matrix with some values missing

### Author(s)

Henning Redestig

[Package pcaMethods version 1.72.0 Index]