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- function S = sparse(X)
- %SPARSE Build sparse matrix from nonzeros and indices.
- % S = SPARSE(...) is the built-in function which generates matrices
- % in MATLAB's sparse storage organization. It can be called with
- % 1, 2, 3, 5 or 6 arguments.
- %
- % S = SPARSE(X) converts a sparse or full matrix to sparse form by
- % squeezing out any zero elements.
- %
- % S = SPARSE(i,j,s,m,n,nzmax) uses the rows of [i,j,s] to generate
- % an m-by-n sparse matrix with space allocated for nzmax nonzeros.
- % The two integer index vectors, i and j, and the real or complex
- % entries vector, s, all have the same length, nnz, which is the
- % number of nonzeros in the resulting sparse matrix S .
- %
- % There are several simplifications of this six argument call.
- %
- % S = SPARSE(i,j,s,m,n) uses nzmax = length(s).
- %
- % S = SPARSE(i,j,s) uses m = max(i) and n = max(j).
- %
- % S = SPARSE(m,n) abbreviates SPARSE([],[],[],m,n,0). This
- % generates the ultimate sparse matrix, an m-by-n all zero matrix.
- %
- % The argument s and one of the arguments i or j may be scalars,
- % in which case they are expanded so that the first three arguments
- % all have the same length.
- %
- % For example, this dissects and then reassembles a sparse matrix:
- %
- % [i,j,s] = find(S);
- % [m,n] = size(S);
- % S = sparse(i,j,s,m,n);
- %
- % So does this, if the last row and column have nonzero entries:
- %
- % [i,j,s] = find(S);
- % S = sparse(i,j,s);
- %
- % All of MATLAB's built-in arithmetic, logical and indexing operations
- % can be applied to sparse matrices, or to mixtures of sparse and
- % full matrices. Operations on sparse matrices return sparse matrices
- % and operations on full matrices return full matrices. In most cases,
- % operations on mixtures of sparse and full matrices return full
- % matrices. The exceptions include situations where the result of
- % a mixed operation is structurally sparse, eg. A .* S is at least
- % as sparse as S . Some operations, such as S >= 0, generate
- % "Big Sparse", or "BS", matrices -- matrices with sparse storage
- % organization but few zero elements.
- %
- % See also FULL, FIND and the sparfun directory.
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- % Copyright (c) 1984-93 by The MathWorks, Inc.
- % Built-in function.
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