Re: Map onto a column
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- Subject: [mg125492] Re: Map onto a column
- From: Murta <rodrigomurtax at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:34:27 -0500 (EST)
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I agree that some solution like that
b = MapAt[f,a,{All,2}]
would be much more elegant. Maybe in Mathematica 9??
On Mar 14, 2:50 am, Sseziwa Mukasa <muk... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Transpose the matrix and MapAt the appropriate row then Transpose back:
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> Transpose[MapAt[f,Transpose[a],2]]
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> On Mar 13, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Sly Pandemia wrote:
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> > Is there a neat way to map a function onto a specific column in an
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> > For example if I have
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> > a = {{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}}
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> > and I want to map f onto the second element in each row. I would
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> > b = Map[MapAt[f,#,2]&,a]
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> > but this seems a bit awkward. I would expect to be able to use
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> > b = MapAt[f,a,{All,2}]
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> > but this appears to be illegal syntax.
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> > Is there any way to do what I want with a single Map/MapAt function?
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- From: Sly Pandemia <slypandemia@gmail.com>
- Map onto a column