Finished Prog Assignment 2

Author: David Boeke

cachematrix.R

@@ -1,15 +1,36 @@
-## Put comments here that give an overall description of what your
-## functions do
-
-## Write a short comment describing this function
+## Coursera R Programming Course (rprog-007)
+## Programming Assignment 2 (Week 3)
+## Set of functions that caches the inversion of a matrix
 
+## makeCacheMatrix is function creates a special "matrix" object that can 
+## cache its inverse.
 makeCacheMatrix <- function(x = matrix()) {
-
+    ## Return a vector that is a cache of an inverse matrix
+    m <- NULL
+    set <- function(y) {
+        x <<- y
+        m <<- NULL
+    }
+    get <- function() x
+    setmatrix <- function(solve) m <<- solve
+    getmatrix <- function() m
+    list(set=set, get=get, setmatrix=setmatrix, getmatrix=getmatrix)
 }
 
 
-## Write a short comment describing this function
-
+## This function computes the inverse of the special "matrix" returned by 
+## makeCacheMatrix above. If the inverse has already been calculated (and the
+## matrix has not changed), then the cachesolve should retrieve the inverse 
+## from the cache.
 cacheSolve <- function(x, ...) {
-        ## Return a matrix that is the inverse of 'x'
+    ## Return a matrix that is the inverse of 'x'
+    m <- x$getmatrix()
+    if(!is.null(m)) {
+        message("getting cached data")
+        return(m)
+    }
+    data <- x$get()
+    m <- solve(data, ...)
+    x$setmatrix(m)
+    m
 }