I am triying to rearranging the matrix and form one as explained below

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I would like to rearrange and form a new matrix, I have a matrix for example A=[1 2;2 16;3 5;1 12;2 6;3 7;1 5;2 7;3 6;1 7;2 10;3 18] this has repetitive 1st column "1 2 3 " I need to form a new martix with values in the 2nd row arranged corrosponding values resulting B=[1 2 12 5 7;2 16 6 7 10;3 5 7 6 18] Please help ,how this can be done? TIA!
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Alexandra Harkai
Alexandra Harkai on 13 Oct 2016
Edited: Alexandra Harkai on 13 Oct 2016
Using splitapply could be a good option, since your matrix seems to be defining the group indices (1,2,3) and the corresponding values:
splitapply(@(x) {x'}, A(:,2), A(:,1))
This does not give you a matrix yet, but is able to deal with the situation even when not all groups have the same number of elements. Plus you can then append the group indices in front of the result matrix, but this is a good direction to start in. Explanation: @(x) {x'} is basically an identity function, but transposing the result. You just want to apply the identity function to each group of elements, which is what splitapply does.

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Ganesh Hegade
Ganesh Hegade on 13 Oct 2016
Edited: James Tursa on 13 Oct 2016
Hi, Hope this below piece of code will help you.
aSize = size(A);
initialValue = A(1);
count = 1;
temp=[];
for i = 1: aSize(1)
if i >1 && A(i) == initialValue
[B] = A(count:i -1, :) ;
count = i;
temp = [temp B];
end;
end;
bSize = size(temp);
temp = [temp A(i- bSize(1) + 1:i, :)];
B = unique(temp.','rows', 'stable').';
Thanks.
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Guillaume
Guillaume on 13 Oct 2016
Please, use the {} Code button (or put two spaces in front of each line of code) to format code as code

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Guillaume
Guillaume on 13 Oct 2016
Following on from Alexandra Harkai's comment to your question:
A = [1 2;2 16;3 5;1 12;2 6;3 7;1 5;2 7;3 6;1 7;2 10;3 18]
rows = splitapply(@(x) {x'}, A(:,2), A(:,1))
assert(all(diff(cellfun(@numel, rows)) == 0), 'Cannot make a matrix since each unique index does not have the same number of elements');
B = [unique(A(:, 1)), vertcat(rows{:})]

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