Convert a Sparse Numeric Matrix to Matrix Market Format

This function takes a sparse numeric matrix and converts it into a Matrix Market file.

Arguments

input

A sparse numeric matrix to be converted.

filename

The name of the output file where the Matrix Market formatted data will be saved.

Value

A boolean indicating success or failure. Writes a MTX file to disk.

Examples

sparse_mat <- Matrix::Matrix(c(1, 0, 0, 2), nrow = 2, sparse = TRUE)
sparse_Matrix_to_fmm(sparse_mat, tempfile(fileext = ".mtx"))
#> [1] TRUE