Question

I have following problem:

myvec <- c(1:3)

mymat <- as.matrix(cbind(a = 6:15, b = 16:25, c= 26:35))
mymat
       a  b  c
 [1,]  6 16 26
 [2,]  7 17 27
 [3,]  8 18 28
 [4,]  9 19 29
 [5,] 10 20 30
 [6,] 11 21 31
 [7,] 12 22 32
 [8,] 13 23 33
 [9,] 14 24 34
[10,] 15 25 35

I want to multiply the mymat with myvec and construct new vector such that

sum(6*1, 16*2, 26*3) 
sum(7*1, 17*2, 27*3)

....................
sum(15*1, 25*2, 35*3)

Sorry, this is simple question that I do not know…

Edit: typo corrected

Answer 1

The %*% operator in R does matrix multiplication:

> mymat %*% myvec
      [,1]
 [1,]  116
 [2,]  122
 ...
[10,]  170