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Re: VectorToMatrix

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  • Subject: [mg4343] Re: VectorToMatrix
  • From: tlm at ameslab.gov (Dr. T. L. Marchioro II)
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:59:39 -0400
  • Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

 Robert Pratt wrote:
> I want to define a function VectorToMatrix[list_, n_] that behaves as 
> follows:
> 
> VectorToMatrix[{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j}, 4]//MatrixForm
> 
> 0 a b c d
> 0 0 e f g
> 0 0 0 h i
> 0 0 0 0 j
> 
> Now n can be determined from Length[list], which will always be equal 
to 
> n choose 2 for some n.  But I would rather input n to save that 
> computation.  (I will be doing this for a lot of vectors.)
> 
> Any ideas?

This proved a little more difficult than I had thought...  but I think 
the following is what you want to convert a vector into the elements of 
an upper triangular matrix.  I am a little surprised your example is not 
nXn, but assume that is what you want.  If not, the following should be 
easy to adapt.  No doubt some guru can present a more efficient method :)

vectorToUTMatrix[l_List, n_Integer]:=
Module[{temp, temp1},
	(*make the first row  *)
 
	temp=RotateRight[Join[l, Table[0, {n}]]];
	temp1=Take[temp, n+1];

	(* now form other rows and join them to first *) 
	Do[(
		temp=Drop[temp, {iter+1, n+1}];
		temp=RotateRight[temp]; 
		temp1=Join[temp1, Take[temp, n+1]];), 
	{iter, 1, n-1}];
 
	(* Partition list of elements into matrix of proper shape *)
	Partition[temp1,n+1]
	]


For me this yields:

l={a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j}; 


vectorToUTMatrix[l,4]//MatrixForm

0   a   b   c   d

0   0   e   f   g

0   0   0   h   i

0   0   0   0   j


l=Join[l, {k, el, m, n, o}]; 


vectorToUTMatrix[l,5]//MatrixForm


0    a    b    c    d    e

0    0    f    g    h    i

0    0    0    j    k    el

0    0    0    0    m    n

0    0    0    0    0    o


l=Join[l, {p,q, r, s, t, u}];

vectorToUTMatrix[l,6]//MatrixForm

0    a    b    c    d    e    f

0    0    g    h    i    j    k

0    0    0    el   m    n    o

0    0    0    0    p    q    r

0    0    0    0    0    s    t

0    0    0    0    0    0    u

etc.  I hope this is what you were after.

TLM

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