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Gimpy
Gimpy on 26 May 2013
Answered: Lola Davidson on 3 Jun 2024
Hi, I have the following data:
data=[10 1 2 3; 11 4 5 6;10 0 20 30; 11 4 5 6; 12 7 8 9; 17 40 50 60]
I want to look for:
lookfor=[10;11]
and get the following result:
anwser=[10 1 22 33; 11 8 10 12]
So it's a group by...
I'm looking for a dynamic anwser, data matrix and lookfor matrix will vary and be much more bigger.
thank you in advance for your precious anwsers.
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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 26 May 2013
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 26 May 2013
It's grouped by what? how did you get 1,22 and 33?
Gimpy
Gimpy on 26 May 2013
I'm looking for the data associate with 10 and 11 lookfor=[10;11]
The element associate with the look for a group sum except the data I'm looking for:
lookfor=[10;11]
1 2 3 + 0 20 30; this is for the query on value 10
for 11
4 5 6; + 4 5 6 final result:
lookfor=[10;17]
anwser=[10 1 22 33; 11 8 10 12]

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 26 May 2013
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 26 May 2013
data=[10 1 2 3; 11 4 5 6;10 0 20 30; 11 4 5 6; 12 7 8 9; 17 40 50 60]
lookfor=[10;11];
a=arrayfun(@(x) data(find(data(:,1)==x),:),lookfor,'un',0);
b=cell2mat(cellfun(@(x) [x(1) sum(x(:,2:end),1)],a,'un',0))
%or
data=[10 1 2 3; 11 4 5 6;10 0 20 30; 11 4 5 6; 12 7 8 9; 17 40 50 60]
lookfor=[10;11]
for k=1:numel(lookfor)
ii=data(ismember(data(:,1),lookfor(k)),:);
res(k,:)=[ii(1,1) sum(ii(:,2:end))];
end
res
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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 27 May 2013
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 27 May 2013
You should clear the variable res
clear res
% or better, pre-allocate
res=zeros(numel(lookfor),size(data,2))
Gimpy
Gimpy on 27 May 2013
wonderful thanks a lot ! merci

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More Answers (2)

Andrei Bobrov
Andrei Bobrov on 27 May 2013
[i1,i2] = ismember(data(:,1),lookfor);
d2 = data(i1,2:end);
[j1,j2] = ndgrid(i2(i1),1:size(d2,2));
anwser = [lookfor,accumarray([j1(:),j2(:)],d2(:))];

Lola Davidson
Lola Davidson on 3 Jun 2024
For those still stumbling on this, MATLAB now has several more functions to help with grouping workflows, including groupsummary and pivot.
For this problem, if you are expecting several different lookfor values on the same dataset, it may be faster to compute all the sums with groupsummary in one go:
[sums,grps] = groupsummary(data(:,2:end),data(:,1),"sum");
out = [grps sums]
On the other hand, if you only want to compute a small subset of the grouped sums per dataset, it may be quicker to filter down with ismember first, as others have mentioned.
idx = ismember(data(:,1),lookfor);
[sums,grps] = groupsummary(data(idx,2:end),data(idx,1),"sum");
out = [grps sums]

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