It turns out the (relatively) hard work was just adapting the data
editor spreadsheet for matrix use (still not as good as it could
be, but workable) and hooking up a matrix back-end. That done, a
lot of other things come more or less for free. So here's what we
have now:
* A "properties" window for matrices. Not very interesting for
non-square matrices at this point, but for square ones you get a
reading on symmetry, positive definiteness, determinant,
eigenvalues and so on.
* The gui matrix editor now has a menu of transformations such as
X'X, transpose, Cholesky decomposition and such. Also a "save as"
button to let you save a transformation under another name.
Might be of some use for pedagogical purposes.
Allin.