I cannot assign a column via A(::,1) = DenseVector to a DenseMatrix A. Here is what I get in the repl:
scala> val A=DenseMatrix.vertcat(DenseVector(11,12).toDenseMatrix,DenseVector(21,22).toDenseMatrix) A: breeze.linalg.DenseMatrix[Int] = 11 12 21 22 scala> A(::,1) = DenseVector(13,23) <console>:14: error: type mismatch; found : collection.immutable.::.type required: Int A(::,1) = DenseVector(13,23) ^ Scala version is 2.12, breeze version: 1.0. This is similar to this question where it is stated that this should work. The problem persists if A is declared as a var.