I have the following problem: I have several partial (eigen) MatrixXds I want to concatenate to another, larger, MatrixXd variable I only have as a pointer. However, both the size of the smaller matrices and their number are dynamic, so I cannot use the << operator easily.
So I'm trying the following (the smaller matrices are stored in list_subdiagrams, obviously, and basis->cols() defines the number of matrices), using Eigen's MatrixXd block funtionality:
// sd[] contains the smaller matrices to be concatenated; all are of the same size
// col defines the total number of smaller matrices
MatrixXd* ret = new MatrixXd(sd[0]->rows(), col*sd[0]->cols());
for (int i=0; i<col; ++i){
ret->block(0, i*sd[0]->cols(), sd[0]->rows(), sd[0]->cols()) = *(sd[i]);
}
This, unfortunately, appears to somehow overwrite some part of the *ret variable - for before the assignment via the block, the size is (in my test-case) correctly shown as being 2x1. After the assignment it becomes 140736006011136x140736006011376 ...
Thank you for your help!
What do you mean you don't know the size? You can use the member functions cols()/rows()
to get the size. Also, I assume by concatenation you mean direct sum? In that case, you can do something like
#include <iostream>
#include <Eigen/Dense>
int main()
{
Eigen::MatrixXd *A = new Eigen::MatrixXd(2, 2);
Eigen::MatrixXd *B = new Eigen::MatrixXd(3, 3);
*A << 1, 2, 3, 4;
*B << 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
Eigen::MatrixXd *result = new Eigen::MatrixXd(A->rows() + B->rows(), A->cols() + B->cols());
result->Zero(A->rows() + B->rows(), A->cols() + B->cols());
result->block(0, 0, A->rows(), A->cols()) = *A;
result->block(A->rows(), A->cols(), B->rows(), B->cols()) = *B;
std::cout << *result << std::endl;
delete A;
delete B;
delete result;
}
So first make sure it works for 2 matrices, test it, then extend it to N
.