Permute elements within rows of matrix

element, matlab, matrix, permutation

Solution

You can use `sort` on a random array of any size (which is what `randperm` does). After that, all you need to do is some index-trickery to properly reshuffle the array

A = [0 0 0 0 1; 0 0 0 0 2; 0 1 2 3 4];
[nRows,nCols] = size(A);

[~,idx] = sort(rand(nRows,nCols),2);

%# convert column indices into linear indices
idx = (idx-1)*nRows + ndgrid(1:nRows,1:nCols);

%# rearrange A
B = A;
B(:) = B(idx)

B =

     0     0     1     0     0
     0     2     0     0     0
     2     1     3     4     0

Problem

I have a matrix A ``` A = [0 0 0 0 1; 0 0 0 0 2; 0 1 2 3 4]; ``` and I would like to randomly permute the elements within each row. For example, matrix A2 ``` A2 = [1 0 0 0 0; 0 0 0 2 0; 4 1 3 2 0]; % example of desired output ``` I can do this with a vector: ``` Av = [0 1 2 3 4]; Bv = Av(randperm(5)); ``` But I am unsure how to do this a row at time for a matrix and to only permute the elements within a given row. Is this possible to do? I could construct a matrix from many permuted vectors, but I would prefer not to do it this way. Thanks.

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