Extract rows from matrix and make a new matrix in MATLAB - matlab

I have a matrix
X = [1 1;2 2;3 3;4 4];
Y = [2 4];
I want a resulting matrix z to have just rows 2 and 4 (the values in Y) of X. That is,
Z = [2 2;4 4];
Any solutions?

Z = X(Y,:);
This is a pretty easily researched question in my opinion: the first result for "MATLAB matrix indexing" answers your question and has a lot more general information about selecting parts of MATLAB matrices.

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Multiply each column in a matrix by corresponding row in another and sum results in Matlab

Lets say I have matrices A = [1 2; 3 4], B = [4 3; 2 1]. I want to multiply each column from matrix A ([1; 3], [2; 4]) by the corresponding row in matrix B ([4 3], [2 1]) and sum resulting matrices. I have came up with the following code:
C = zeros(size(A));
for i = 1 : size(A, 1)
C = C + A(:, i) * B(i, :);
end
Could it be rewritten using some math trick or matlab function to get rid of the for loop?
I see there is unclarity in my question regarding the result I want. The result should exactly mimic provided Matlab code, therefore I seek one matrix which is given by the matrix summation of the intermediate matrices that are created by multiplying each column vector with corresponding row vector from both matrices. For this specific example, it would be given by
C = A(:, 1) * B(1, :) + A(:, 2) * B(2, :);
I am just looking for some generic, for-loop less version for any matrices of compatible dimensions.
I just tried out my suggestion in the comments, and it seems to work with this octave tester:
Short form (only works in Octave):
A = [1 2; 3 4], B = [4 3; 2 1]
X = sum((A * B)(:))
Long form (Matlab):
A = [1 2; 3 4]
B = [4 3; 2 1]
C = A * B % Stop here if you want the exact result from your Matlab code
x = sum(C(:)) % To get the sum of the resulting matrix
Sources:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/matlab/matlab_matrix_multiplication.htm
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/51252
Update, based on your update:
Output of A * B:
8 5
20 13
Output of your code:
8 5
20 13
It appears that
C = zeros(size(A));
for i = 1 : size(A, 1)
C = C + A(:, i) * B(i, :);
end
is equivalent to the matrix multiplication
C = A*B
for square matrices A and B.
You can also do this in MATLAB, to get the sum.
C=ones(1,2)*A*B*ones(2,1)
The general form would be
C=ones(1,size(A,1))*(A*B)*ones(size(B,2),1);
EDIT
I see you updated your question for clarity. The matrix product can be calculated directly
C = A*B;
as pointed out by jodag.
This works provided you follow rules of linear algebra where inner dimensions of your matrices are the same (i.e. when number of columns in A match the number of rows in B; size(A,2)==size(B,1)).

What is meaning of X(1,:) = [x y]; in matlab

I am not a matlab user,I just want to rewrite a function from matlab to python.
So my question is excatly like in tittle,what is meaning of X(1,:) = [x y];
When X is array and x,y are vectors?
Suppose:
x = [1 2 3]
y = [4 5 6]
Then [x y] results in
[1 2 3 4 5 6]
So the two vectors are concatenated.
X(1,:) = ... assigns the right hand side to the first row of matrix X.
X(1,:) = means "put whatever's on the right into the 1st row of X".
[x y] means horizontal concatenation.
Note that if X exists in the workspace, the combination of x and y needs to be of the correct size, or else you'll get a Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch. error.
You can see an example in the answer of m.s.

How do I raise a vector to a vector in MATLAB? [duplicate]

I have two vectors, X of bases and N of exponents. I want to get the matrix of all values e = xn for each x in X and n in N.
For example, the following input:
X = [2 3 4]'
N = [1 2 3]
should produce:
ans = [2 4 8; 3 9 27; 4 16 64]
Is there a way to get this without looping (just like you can get all values of x×n by using the column by row product)?
Use bsxfun:
bsxfun(#power, X, N)
This assumes that X is a column vector and N is a row vector. If you want to guarantee that, use the following syntax which is more robust:
bsxfun(#power, X(:), N(:).')
This is probably a bit sloppier than the bsxfun answer, but you could use meshgrid:
E = X.^(meshgrid(N)')
This assumes both X and N are row vectors. If both are column vectors then it becomes:
E = X.^(meshgrid(N))

What does this command do?

I am new at MATLAB, help me understand this
I googled a lot but I couldn't find a correct answer
Any links will also be helpful
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x = x(1000:1480);
What does this do?
I know x(:) makes a column vector, but x(a:b); does it make an m * n matrix an n * m?
The command x = x(1000:1480); takes a slice out of a given array and puts it back to x.
These are basics; you should have a look at a good tutorial.
Examples:
a = [1 2 3 4 5];
b = a(2:2:5) % -> [2 4]
c = a(3:end) % -> [3 4 5]

MATLAB/OCTAVE Extracting elements from different sized vectors in a cell array

I have a simple question but I can't figure it out or find it anywhere.
I have a cell array where c{1} is a vector and c{2} is a vector but of different lengths, up to c{i}. What I want is one vector that is [c{1};c{2};c{3}...c{i}]. What is the most efficient way to do this?
The following one-liner even works for completely inconsistent inputs:
result = [cell2mat(cellfun(#(x) x(:), A, 'uni', 0)')]'
Example:
for:
A{1} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
A{2} = [6; 7; 8; 9];
A{3} = [10, 12; 11, 13];
it returns:
result =
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Matlab/Octave allows this king of really-not-efficient but very-convenient notation, assuming a is a structure only containing column-vectors:
x = []; #% A fresh new vector/matrix/tensor, who knows?
for i=1:numel(a) #% parse container item by item
x = [x;a{i}]; #% append container item a{i} to x in a column-fashion way
end
This will works but it is bloody inefficient since it will reallocate x each for step and it is not bulletproof (no error handling, no type checking): therefore it will fail if it encounters anything (matrix, string, row vector) but column vector which are likely to be found in such containers.
Anyway, it will ease a not-so-stringent-and-heuristic design, but please consider reimplementing when robust design is needed.
You can padding each cell with zeros, and align the lengths to the longest cell vector. It is done in a loop by iterating each cell vector.
This depends on whether the vectors in c are row or column vectors. But usually the fastest and most compact ways are:
c={[1 2 3], [4 5 6 7 8], [9 10]}
cell2mat(c)
cat(2, c{:})
or
c={[1 2 3]', [4 5 6 7 8]', [9 10]'}
% cell2mat(c) % Doesn't work.
cat(1, c{:})
so personally, I prefer cat.
In Matlab; without loops:
If the cell array contains column vectors and you want to arrange them into one big column vector:
result = vertcat(c{:}); %// vertically concat all vectors
Example:
>> c = {[1;2], [1;2;3]};
>> result = vertcat(c{:})
result =
1
2
1
2
3
If the cell array contains row vectors, you can arrange them as rows of a matrix, filling non-existent values with NaN (or any other value):
M = max(cellfun(#numel, c)); %// max length of vectors
c2 = cellfun(#(row)[row NaN(1,M-numel(row))], c, 'uni', 0); %// fill with NaN
result = vertcat(c2{:}); %// concat all equal-size row vectors into a matrix
Example:
>> c = {[1 2], [1 2 3]};
>> M = max(cellfun(#numel, c));
>> c2 = cellfun(#(row)[row NaN(1,M-numel(row))], c, 'uni', 0);
>> result = vertcat(c2{:})
result =
1 2 NaN
1 2 3