— Loadable Function: sparse_val = sparse (...)

SPARSE: create a sparse matrix

sparse can be called in the following ways:

1. S = sparse(A) where A is a full matrix
2. S = sparse(A,1) where A is a full matrix, result is forced back to a full matrix is resulting matrix is sparse
3. S = sparse(i,j,s,m,n,nzmax) where
   i,j are integer index vectors (1 x nnz)
   s is the vector of real or complex entries (1 x nnz)
   m,n are the scalar dimentions of S
   nzmax is ignored (here for compatability with Matlab)
   

   if multiple values are specified with the same i,j position, the corresponding values in s will be added

4. The following usages are equivalent to (2) above:
   S = sparse(i,j,s,m,n)
   S = sparse(i,j,s,m,n,'summation')
   S = sparse(i,j,s,m,n,'sum')
   
5. S = sparse(i,j,s,m,n,'unique')
   
   same as (2) above, except that rather than adding, if more than two values are specified for the same i,j position, then the last specified value will be kept
6. S= sparse(i,j,sv) uses m=max(i), n=max(j)
7. S= sparse(m,n) does sparse([],[],[],m,n,0)

   sv, and i or j may be scalars, in which case they are expanded to all have the same length

See also: full.