Matlab.Copying the rows n times in order

Question

Hey I would like to do something like the following

to

But please do not advice manual things. I am writing an algorithm with inputs and matrix dimensions may change.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '13 at 09:01

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There's a few ways. The simplest I think would be to use the Kronecker product:

B = kron(A, ones(3,1))

the faster but less readable solution is replication by multiplication and reshaping:

B = reshape((A(:) * ones(1,3))', 3*size(A,1),size(A,2))

or the same solution, but then using repmat:

B = reshape(repmat(A(:).',3,1), 3*size(A,1),size(A,2))

answered Jul 08 '13 at 09:01

Rody Oldenhuis

akk · Answer 2 · 2013-07-08T09:37:07.937

You can also try something based on the following:

a = [1 2 3]
b = [4 5 6]
c = [7 8 9]

d = [ a; a; b; b; c; c]

e = [ repmat([a], [2, 1]) ;
      repmat([b], [2, 1]) ;
      repmat([c], [2, 1]) ]

d and e both result in the matrix below:

To append more rows you can also use this for loop and see what the result is:

 e = [] 
 for i = 1:2    
      e = [ e;
            repmat([a], [2, 1]) ;
            repmat([b], [2, 1]) ;
            repmat([c], [2, 1]) ]  
 end

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