Convert digit to vector octave/matlab [duplicate] - matlab

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I have a vector y = [0; 2; 4]
I want to convert each element of it into vector, where all elements are zero but element with index equal to digit is 1.
I'd like to do it without loops.
For example [0; 2; 4] should be converted to
[1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0]
(in this example vector first index is 0)

Answer 1

The usual trick with sparse can be used to simplify the process. Let n denote the desired number of columns. Then
result = full(sparse(1:numel(y), y+1, 1, numel(y), n));
For example, y = [0;2;4] and 10 produce
result =
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

Answer 2

First you need to decide how many digits you want to represent each number. In your case, you have 10 digits per number, so let's keep that in mind.
Once you do this, it's just a matter of indexing each element in your matrix. In your case, you have 10 digits per number. As such, do something like this:
y = [0; 2; 4]; %// Your digits array
out = zeros(numel(y), 10); %// 10 digits per number
ind = sub2ind(size(out), [1:numel(y)].', y+1);
out(ind) = 1;
The output should look like this:
out =
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Let's go through this code slowly. y defines the digits you want per row of the output matrix. out allocates a matrix of zeroes where the number of rows is defined by how many digits you want in y. out will thus store your resulting matrix that you have shown us in your post.
The number of columns is 10, but you change this to be whatever you want. ind uses a command called sub2ind. This allows to completely vectorize the assignment of values in your out matrix and avoids a for loop. The first parameter is an array of values that defines how many rows and columns are in your matrix that you are trying to assign things to. In this case, it's just the size of out. The second and third parameters are the rows and columns you want to access in your matrix. In this case, the rows vary from 1 to as many elements as there are in y. In our case, this is 3. We want to generate one number per row, which is why it goes from 1 to 3. The columns denote where we want to set the digit to one for each row. As MATLAB indexes starting at 1, we have to make sure that we take y and add by 1. ind thus creates the column-major indices in order to access our matrix. The last statement finally accesses these locations and assigns a 1 to each location, thus producing our matrix.
Hope this helps!