You can't have two values at the same row and column, which is what the
first two lines of this output would indicate:

[1, 1] = 1.0
[1, 1] = 1.0
[2, 2] = 1.0


Since the indices (1,1) appear twice the associated values are added,
giving 2.0.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Yankai Cao <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am new to Julia. I have 2 questions about constructting sparse matrix
> from arrays.
>
> 1.
> I=[1;1;2]
> J=[1;1;2]
> V=[1.0;1.0;1.0]
> Mat=sparse(I,J,V,2,2)
>
> According to the Julia guide "If the combine function is not supplied,
> duplicates are added by default." I expect Mat to be
> [ 1, 1] =1.0
> [ 1, 1] = 1.0
>  [2, 2] = 1.0
>
> however, what I get is
> [1,1]=2
> [2,2]=1
>
> So what is the default behavior without combine function? How do I specify
> the combine function? There is no instructions about it right now.
>
> 2. when i change V=[1.0;0.0;0.0]. I expected
> [ 1, 1] = 1.0
>  [2, 2] = 0
>
> what I get is
> [1,1]=1
>
> How can I let julia to combine elements only according to the indexes I, J
> ? How to keep those elements with value 0 ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Yankai
>
>
>
>
>

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