The “as.matrix” Function in R

• Package: Base R (no specific package required)

• Purpose: Converts an object to a matrix.

• General Class: Data Manipulation

• Required Argument(s):

• x: An R object to be converted to a matrix.

• Notable Optional Arguments:

• ncol: Desired number of columns in the matrix. This is relevant when x is a vector, and you want to reshape it into a matrix with a specific number of columns.

• nrow: Desired number of rows in the matrix. Similar to ncol, this is relevant when reshaping a vector.

• Example:

• # Example data for using the as.matrix function
  vector_example <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
  
  # Use as.matrix to convert a vector to a matrix with 2 columns
  matrix_result <- as.matrix(vector_example, ncol = 2)
  
  # Display the result
  print(matrix_result)

• In this example, the as.matrix function is used to convert a vector (vector_example) to a matrix (matrix_result) with 2 columns. The as.matrix function is versatile and can be used to convert various objects to a matrix, including vectors, data frames, and arrays.