Convert dense objects to sparse representations
as.sparse(x, ...)# S3 method for data.frame
as.sparse(x, row.names = NULL, ...)
# S3 method for Matrix
as.sparse(x, ...)
# S3 method for matrix
as.sparse(x, ...)
# S3 method for ngCMatrix
as.sparse(x, ...)
A sparse representation of the input data
An object
Arguments passed to other methods
NULL
or a character vector giving the row names for
the data; missing values are not allowed