I often have large matrices and have to grab only every nth column or row (for plotting
for example). So far I've been doing it this way:
nthColumns:=proc(v_m, v_n)
v_m[..,[seq(i, i=1..rtable_size(v_m)[2], v_n)]]
end;
nthRows:=proc(v_m, v_n)
v_m[[seq(i, i=1..rtable_size(v_m)[1], v_n)],..]
end;
A := LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(20, 20, outputoptions = [datatype = float[8]]);