nexus (version 0.3.0)

scalar: Scalar Product

Description

Computes the Aitchison scalar product of two compositions.

Usage

scalar(x, y, ...)
# S4 method for numeric,numeric
scalar(x, y)
# S4 method for CompositionMatrix,CompositionMatrix
scalar(x, y)

Value

A numeric vector.

Arguments

x, y

A CompositionMatrix object.

...

Currently not used.

Author

N. Frerebeau

See Also

Other operations in the simplex: arithmetic, closure(), perturbation(), powering()

Examples

x <- as_composition(c(1, 2, 3))
y <- as_composition(c(1, 2, 1))

## Perturbation
perturbation(x, y)
x + y

## Powering
powering(y, 2)
y * 2

## Scalar product
scalar(x, y)