madness (version 0.2.8)

det: Matrix Determinant

Description

Compute the determinant of a matrix. As for base::determinant, a list of the modulus and sign are returned.

Usage

# S3 method for madness
determinant(x, logarithm = TRUE, ...)
det(x, ...)
# S4 method for madness,ANY
determinant(x, logarithm = TRUE, ...)
# S4 method for madness,missing
determinant(x, logarithm = TRUE, ...)
# S4 method for madness,logical
determinant(x, logarithm = TRUE, ...)

Value

a list with elements modulus and sign, which are madness objects.

Arguments

x

madness object.

logarithm

logical; if TRUE (default) return the logarithm of the modulus of the determinant.

...

Optional arguments. At present none are used. Previous versions of det allowed an optional method argument. This argument will be ignored but will not produce an error.

Author

Steven E. Pav