Re: Using implicit information about row indices
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- Subject: [mg68337] Re: [mg68254] Using implicit information about row indices
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:00:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Diamond, Mark wrote:
> I am wanting to fill a square matrix M (say, r by r) using information from
> a list, L.
> The list L is also of length r, but is not a square matrix. It contains
> lists of ordered pairs {col, num}
> It typically looks something like this; I have arranged it into rows so that
> it is more obvious
> {
> {{1, a}, {2, b}},
>
> {{1, c}, {2, d}, {3, e}, {4, f}},
>
> {{2, g}, {3, h}, {4, i}},
>
> {{3, k}, {4, l}, {5,m}},
>
> {{4, n}, {5, p}}
>
> }
>
> Now what I am trying to do is, for example, set M[[1,1]]=a, M[[1,2]]=b,
> M[[2,1]]=c, M[[2.2]]=d, M[[2,3]]=e and so forth, and leave (or set) all the
> other entries in M to zero. The row information for M is implicit in the
> structure of the list L; additionally, the column indices as they appear
> within sublist of L are guraranteed to be sequential. It seems with all this
> info, there should be an easy way to fill M correctly, but I have struggled
> without success to do anything other than an iterative process with Do[]. I
> would appreciate any guidance you might have.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Mark Diamond
Not pretty, but...
info = {
{{1, a}, {2, b}},
{{1, c}, {2, d}, {3, e}, {4, f}},
{{2, g}, {3, h}, {4, i}},
{{3, k}, {4, l}, {5,m}},
{{4, n}, {5, p}}};
In[19]:= Normal[Apply[SparseArray,{Flatten[
MapIndexed[Map[Function[{x},{#2[[1]],x[[1]]}->x[[2]]],#]&, info]]}]]
Out[19]= {{a, b, 0, 0, 0}, {c, d, e, f, 0}, {0, g, h, i, 0},
{0, 0, k, l, m}, {0, 0, 0, n, p}}
There is probably a cleaner way to do the MapIndexed[Map[...]] part.
Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research