How do I populate a column with a constant value?
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I am trying to populate a column in a newly created empty variable (ConstantVector) with a constant value for the column length of an existing vector (Vector_A), which is 5904x1.
The following code populates a row (1x5904):
ConstantVector=[];
for i=1:length(Vector_A)
ConstantVector(i)=((10^5)/((8.31434)*(298.15)))*(10^6);
end
How should I be coding this so that the ConstantVector is one column with the same value in the length of Vector_A?
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Star Strider
on 21 Jun 2016
Use the ones function to create a vector of 1 and then multiply it by your constant value:
ConstantVector = ones(size(VectorA))*((10^5)/((8.31434)*(298.15)))*(10^6);
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Steven Lord
on 21 Jun 2016
Depending what you're planning to do with the resulting vector. One obvious possibility is repmat.
x = magic(5);
y = repmat(pi, size(x));
z = repmat(42, size(x, 1), 1);
w = repmat(-999, 2, size(x, 2));
If you need to add the constant to the original, like if I wanted to add to the vector z, take advantage of scalar expansion rather than creating a (potentially large) temporary array.
q1 = z + 1;
q2 = z + ones(size(z));
isequal(q2, q2) % returns true
The repelem and bsxfun functions may also be of interest, again depending on what you're trying to do.
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