How to add 1 matrix to another matrix ?
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I have 2 matrices with different size as show below and just want to concatenate both of them. I know 2nd matrix have 1st 6 columns entries that are lying in b/w 1st matrix somewhere, so now i just want to add last 2 column values to 1st matrix of there corresponding rows of 1st matrix. Can someone help me how to write syntax for this ?
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Star Strider
on 27 Apr 2016
Edited: Star Strider
on 27 Apr 2016
One approach, taking advantage of the fact that both of your matrices are sorted by the first column:
M1 = sortrows(rand(15, 4), 1); % Create 1st Matrix & Sort By Column #1
M2 = [M1(1:5:end,:) rand(3,2)]; % Create 2nd Matrix & Add Columns #5 & #6
idx = find(ismember(M1(:,1), M2(:,1))); % Find Indices Of Matching Column #1 Entries
M1 = [M1 zeros(size(M1,1),2)]; % Add Zeros To End Of ‘M1’
M1(idx,5:6) = M2(:,5:6); % Fill Columns #5 & #6 With Same Values From ‘M2’
Since you are dealing with floating-point numbers, if you have R2015a or later, you would likely best use ismembertol instead of ismember to guarantee that your data match.
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Star Strider
on 27 Apr 2016
My pleasure.
I’m hoping that your matrix entries are exact, so that ismember will work. If not, we will work on a way to use a tolerance with it. Rounding the first column of each matrix to a particular number of decimal places first would likely be easiest.
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 27 Apr 2016
[n1,m1]=size(x)
[n2,m2]=size(y)
z=zeros(n1,m2)
idx=ismember(x,y(:,1:m1),'rows')
z(idx,:)=y
z(~idx,1:m1)=x(~idx,:)
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