How to check if two matrices are equal in R?
When we matrices of larger size and the data is expected to from the same distribution or from same sources then we might expect that the matrices are equal. In this type of situations, we would like to check whether the two matrices are equal or not. This can be done with the help of all.equal function as shown in the below examples.
Example
Live Demo
M1<-matrix(1:100,ncol=10)
M1
Output
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
[1,] 1 11 21 31 41 51 61 71 81 91
[2,] 2 12 22 32 42 52 62 72 82 92
[3,] 3 13 23 33 43 53 63 73 83 93
[4,] 4 14 24 34 44 54 64 74 84 94
[5,] 5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 86 96
[7,] 7 17 27 37 47 57 67 77 87 97
[8,] 8 18 28 38 48 58 68 78 88 98
[9,] 9 19 29 39 49 59 69 79 89 99
[10,] 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Example
Live Demo
M2<-matrix(1:100,ncol=10)
M2
Output
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
[1,] 1 11 21 31 41 51 61 71 81 91
[2,] 2 12 22 32 42 52 62 72 82 92
[3,] 3 13 23 33 43 53 63 73 83 93
[4,] 4 14 24 34 44 54 64 74 84 94
[5,] 5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 85 95
[6,] 6 16 26 36 46 56 66 76 86 96
[7,] 7 17 27 37 47 57 67 77 87 97
[8,] 8 18 28 38 48 58 68 78 88 98
[9,] 9 19 29 39 49 59 69 79 89 99
[10,] 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
all.equal(M1,M2)
[1] TRUE
Example
Live Demo
M3<-matrix(rpois(64,10),nrow=8)
M3
Output
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8]
[1,] 8 7 7 9 11 13 8 9
[2,] 9 9 9 11 8 10 9 8
[3,] 7 8 9 12 15 11 9 8
[4,] 11 10 15 11 11 11 10 14
[5,] 14 13 14 8 12 12 2 16
[6,] 7 12 6 10 3 5 9 12
[7,] 13 7 15 10 4 7 8 8
[8,] 6 13 7 9 11 12 13 7
Example
Live Demo
M4<-matrix(rpois(64,10),nrow=8)
M4
Output
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8]
[1,] 11 10 9 5 14 4 8 13
[2,] 12 9 15 10 11 11 11 14
[3,] 5 12 12 12 7 20 13 11
[4,] 4 12 16 17 13 9 8 14
[5,] 11 17 13 14 10 6 16 12
[6,] 14 11 8 16 10 12 7 11
[7,] 10 10 8 10 6 12 8 12
[8,] 7 15 8 10 5 11 11 5
all.equal(M3,M4)
[1] "Mean relative difference: 0.3885918"
Example
Live Demo
M5<-matrix(rpois(40,5),nrow=20)
M5
Output
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 2 12
[2,] 5 3
[3,] 8 4
[4,] 8 7
[5,] 10 9
[6,] 7 10
[7,] 3 4
[8,] 5 9
[9,] 7 5
[10,] 2 1
[11,] 3 11
[12,] 3 5
[13,] 4 3
[14,] 9 3
[15,] 2 7
[16,] 8 9
[17,] 2 9
[18,] 7 3
[19,] 0 7
[20,] 5 6
Example
Live Demo
M6<-matrix(rpois(40,5),nrow=20)
M6
Output
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 2 8
[2,] 6 9
[3,] 4 7
[4,] 1 2
[5,] 3 3
[6,] 2 4
[7,] 4 7
[8,] 6 6
[9,] 5 5
[10,] 3 1
[11,] 7 6
[12,] 6 6
[13,] 2 4
[14,] 7 3
[15,] 7 4
[16,] 4 4
[17,] 4 3
[18,] 3 4
[19,] 10 6
[20,] 4 6
all.equal(M5,M6)
[1] "Mean relative difference: 0.5952381"
Published on 06-Feb-2021 13:24:40
