programming assignment initial commit

Author: mashcode

cachematrix.R

@@ -1,15 +1,44 @@
 ## Put comments here that give an overall description of what your
 ## functions do
-
 ## Write a short comment describing this function
-
+## This creates a cachematrix object where x is defined as a matrix
 makeCacheMatrix <- function(x = matrix()) {
-
+        ## NULL is assigned the variable m
+        m <- NULL
+        ## Sets the value of the matrix
+        set <- function(y) {
+                ## y is superassigned x which is defined as a matrix
+                x <<- y
+                ## NULL is superassigned to m
+                m <<- NULL
+        }
+        ## Get the value of the matrix depending on the supplied vector
+        get <- function() x
+        ## Sets the value and gets the value of the inverse
+        setinverse <- function(solve) m <<- solve
+        getinverse <- function() m
+                list(set = set, get = get,
+                     setinverse = setinverse,
+                     getinverse = getinverse)
 }
 
-
-## Write a short comment describing this function
-
+## cacheSolve function takes the arguments x, in this case a matrix,and ... 
 cacheSolve <- function(x, ...) {
         ## Return a matrix that is the inverse of 'x'
+        ## gets the inverse of the matrix and assigns it to m
+        m <- x$getinverse()
+        
+        ## if m is NOT a null value, previously solved, then print message
+        if(!is.null(m)) {
+                message("getting cached data")
+                return(m)
+        }
+        ## otherwise assign the get function a name 'data'
+        data <- x$get()
+        ## and passes in 'data' as an argument in the solve function assigned to m
+        m <- solve(data, ...)
+        ## ...which sets the inverse of the cached matrix 
+        x$setinverse(m)
+        m 
 }
+