How to convert Array{Array{Float64, 1}, 1} to Matrix in julia?

julia

Solution

You can use splatting (`...`) and `hcat` to get what you are after:

julia> a = Vector[[0.8681299566762923,-0.3472589826095631], [3.2300860990307445,3.3731249077464946]]
2-element Array{Array{T,1},1}:
 [0.8681299566762923,-0.3472589826095631]
 [3.2300860990307445,3.3731249077464946]

julia> hcat(a...)
2x2 Array{Float64,2}:
  0.86813   3.23009
 -0.347259  3.37312

Or if you wanted stop stack as rows instead of columns you could do the following:

julia> vcat(map(x->x', a)...)
2x2 Array{Float64,2}:
 0.86813  -0.347259
 3.23009   3.37312

I don't recommend building a `Matrix` row by row as that is in conflict with Julia's column major array layout. For larger matrices it is actually more efficient to stack as columns and transpose the output:

julia> a2 = Vector{Float64}[rand(10) for i=1:5000];

julia> stackrows1{T}(a::Vector{Vector{T}}) = vcat(map(transpose, a)...)::Matrix{T}
stackrows1 (generic function with 2 methods)

julia> stackrows2{T}(a::Vector{Vector{T}}) = hcat(a...)'::Matrix{T}
stackrows2 (generic function with 2 methods)

julia> stackrows1(a2) == stackrows2(a2)  # run once to compile and make sure functions do the same thing
true

julia> @time for i=1:100 stackrows1(a2); end
elapsed time: 0.142792896 seconds (149 MB allocated, 7.85% gc time in 7 pauses with 0 full sweep)

julia> @time for i=1:100 stackrows2(a2); end
elapsed time: 0.05213114 seconds (88 MB allocated, 12.60% gc time in 4 pauses with 0 full sweep)

Problem

Let's say I have input of this kind: ``` > [[0.8681299566762923,-0.3472589826095631], [3.2300860990307445,3.3731249077464946]] ``` How can I convert it to more pleasant type like Matrix (knowing dimensions)?

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