From help-request at octave dot org Sat Oct  1 04:23:34 2005
Subject: Re: generating sparse matricies
From: avraham <mavram at bezeqint dot net>
To: plrobert at ucsd dot edu
Cc: soren at hauberg dot org, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 14:11:57 +0200

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:07:31PM -0700, Paul Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Octave 2.1.64. I would like to iteratively build a sparse matrix
> uring code like:
> 
> X = sparse(10000,1000);
> for j=1:1000
> X(:, j) = rand(10000,1) < 0.01;
> end
> 
> I have found however that when I try X(:,j) = rand(10000,1) < 0.01;, the
> matrix X is converted to a full matrix. This happens even if I write: X(:,j)
> = sparse(rand(10000,1) < 0.01);
> 
> My questions are: (1) Will this be changed in future versions of Octave and
> (2) is there an efficient work around for this issue? I have tried using
> sphcat, but that seems to be very slow.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Paul
Hello,
I still have 2.1.64. Asking:
help sprand
I get:
sprand is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.64/site/m/octave-forge/sparse/sprand.m

Which means that you need octave-forge as well.

Good luck, Avraham



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