Re: [eigen] initializing a matrix so that all columns are copies of one column

[Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

here you go:

VectorXd maxdev(pts.colwise() - c).array().abs().rowwise().maxCoeff();

You can also use replicate(...) to form an expression of cmat (see the
documentation of replicate).

gael

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Douglas Bates <bates@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In an optimization algorithm I have an n by n+1 matrix whose columns
> correspond to parameter vectors.  At one point I want to subtract a
> given n vector from each column, convert to absolute values, and find
> the maximum coefficient in each row.  The matrix is called pts and the
> position I want to subtract is a centroid called c.  If I can think of
> a way of creating another n by n+1 matrix whose columns are copies of
> c, let's call it cmat, then I can write
>
>  VectorXd maxdev( (pts - cmat).array().abs().rowwise().maxCoeff() );
>
> but the best I have been able to come up with for constructing cmat is
>
>  MatrixXd  cmat(n, n+1);
>  for (int i = 0; i <= n; ++i) cmat.col(i) = c;
>
> Is there a more elegant way of doing this?
>
>