Re: Summing list subsets
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- Subject: [mg30742] Re: Summing list subsets
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 03:26:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Mark,
Try this,
x = {a, a, b, b, b, b, c, d, d, d, d, d} ;
y = {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4};
In[3]:=Transpose[{Union[x], Map[Apply[Plus, #] &, Split[y]]}]
Out[3]={{a, 2}, {b, 8}, {c, 3}, {d, 20}}
Brian
"Mark Coleman" <mcoleman at bondspace.com> wrote in message news:<9ncfgn$prb$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Greetings:
>
> Consider two lists:
>
> x = {a,a,b,b,b,b,c,d,d,d,d,d,} and y = {1,1,2,2,2,2,3,4,4,4,4,4}
>
> I would like to have a function that returns the sum (or any other function)
> of each unique element of x, given the corresponding value in y. That is,
> for a 'Sum', the result would be
>
> z={{a,2},{b,8},{c,3},{d,20}}
>
> This is similar in spirit to a common database aggregation problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Mark