Re: Using implicit information about row indices
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- Subject: [mg68331] Re: Using implicit information about row indices
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:00:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <eakcj6$qce$1 at smc.vnet.net>, "Diamond, Mark" <dot at dot.dot>
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.
Then SparseArray is your friend.
> 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.
Here is one solution. For
mat = {
{{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}}
};
use MapIndexed and SparseArray:
Flatten[MapIndexed[{First[#2],First[#1]} -> Last[#1]&, mat, {2}], 1] //
SparseArray // Normal
{{a, b, 0, 0}, {c, d, e, f}, {g, h, i, 0}, {k, l, m, 0}, {n, p, 0, 0}}
Cheers,
Paul
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