I'm trying to vectorize the following MATLAB operation:
Given a column vector with indexes, I want a matrix with the same number of rows of the column and a fixed number of columns. The matrix is initialized with zeroes and contains ones in the locations specified by the indexes.
Here is an example of the script I've already written:
y = [1; 3; 2; 1; 3];
m = size(y, 1);
% For loop
yvec = zeros(m, 3);
for i=1:m
yvec(i, y(i)) = 1;
end
The desired result is:
yvec =
1 0 0
0 0 1
0 1 0
1 0 0
0 0 1
Is it possible to achieve the same result without the for loop? I tried something like this:
% Vectorization (?)
yvec2 = zeros(m, 3);
yvec2(:, y(:)) = 1;
but it doesn't work.