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crossprod {base}R Documentation

Matrix Crossproduct

Description

Given matrices x and y as arguments, t returns their matrix cross-product. This is formally equivalent to, but faster than, the call t(x) %*% y.

Usage

crossprod(x, y=x)

[Package base version 0.60 ]