Language Reference

REPEAT Function

creates a new matrix of repeated values

REPEAT( matrix, nrow, ncol)

The inputs to the REPEAT function are as follows:

matrix

is a numeric matrix or literal.

nrow

gives the number of times matrix is repeated across rows.

ncol

gives the number of times matrix is repeated across columns.

The REPEAT function creates a new matrix by repeating the values of the argument matrix nrow*ncol times, ncol times across the rows, and nrow times down the columns. The matrix argument can be numeric or character. For example, the following statements result in the matrix , repeating the matrix twice down and three times across:

  
    x={ 1 2 , 
      3 4} ; 
    y=repeat(x,2,3); 
  
      Y 
      1         2         1         2         1         2 
      3         4         3         4         3         4 
      1         2         1         2         1         2 
      3         4         3         4         3         4