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Re: unpartition

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  • Subject: [mg45950] Re: [mg45899] unpartition
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:16:51 -0500 (EST)
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On 29 Jan 2004, at 11:34, Steven Burger wrote:

> How do you unpartition a matrix?
>
> For example: Starting with,
>
> Partition[Table[4*(i - 1) + j, {i, 4}, {j, 4}],{2,2}]
>
>
> how do you go back to,
>
> Table[4*(i - 1) + j, {i, 4}, {j, 4}]
>
>
>
There is no "Unpartition" function (there are just too many possible 
way to unpartition a list) so you vae to compose something yourself. 
Here is one attempt (same example as yours!)


ll=Partition[Range[16],4]


{{1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {9, 10, 11, 12},
  {13, 14, 15, 16}}


Map[Flatten,Flatten[Transpose[ll,{1,3,2}],1]]


{{1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {9, 10, 11, 12},
  {13, 14, 15, 16}}

Another way that comes to my mind is based on the function AppendRows 
form the LinearAlgebra`MatrixManipulation` package:

<< LinearAlgebra`MatrixManipulation`


Flatten[Apply[AppendRows,ll,1],1]

{{1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {9, 10, 11, 12},
  {13, 14, 15, 16}}

There are certainly a vast number of other ways and there may be among 
them a much simpler one.


Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/


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