Determinant of a Matrix from Schur Decomposition

DESCRIPTION:
Computes the determinant (or its logarithm) of a Matrix from its Schur decomposition.

USAGE:
det.schur.Matrix(x, logarithm=T)

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:
x:
an object of class "schur.Matrix" representing the Schur decomposition of a matrix.

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:
logarithm:
a logical variable indicating whether or not the logarithm of the modulus of the determinant should be returned rather than the determinant itself. The default is to return the logarithm.

VALUE:
returns an object of class "det".

REFERENCES:
Golub, G., and Van Loan, C. F. (1989). Matrix Computations, 2nd edition, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

SEE ALSO:
det.object , det.Matrix .

EXAMPLES:
x <- Matrix( sample(-3:3, size = 9, replace = T), nrow = 3, ncol = 3)
det(schur(x))