cant understand how the matrix is transposed and how the output is 2?

Question

What is the output of this code?

a <- matrix(c(8, 0, 2, 5), ncol = 2)
a <- t(a)
print(a[2, 1])

Answer 1

Print a before and after transposition.

a[2,1] is the element in row 2, column 1.

Answer 2

Thanks Lisa 👍🏻❤️