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Rick Amos

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Developer at MathWorks, working on Parallel Computing Toolbox.

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Reading portions of several CSV files
You might want to take a look at tabularTextDatastore and/or tall arrays. These are geared up to do exactly this kind of thing:-...

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tallArray sorting and plot error
Instead of converting State to a character vector, I would recommend using one of the string utilities. These are all supported ...

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Pass fileDatastore explicit AWS credentials
It is currently not possible to pass explicit credentials directly into fileDatastore. Datastore retrieves the credentials in th...

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Too many .mat files when using Write Tall Table
As you've likely guessed, vertical concatenation of 1600 arrays results in at least 1600 files from tall/write. This is the case...

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Generate a Datastore for binary data?
As of R2017b, MATLAB now allows you to write custom datastores. This will allow you to create datastores that handle large binar...

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How to check Hadoop and Matlab Integrated Properly or Not ???
To look at whether MATLAB is running on the Hadoop cluster correctly, your best bet is to look at the Hadoop/Yarn Web UI. By def...

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How to create tall datastore from multiple data parts?
A datastore can be created from a collection of folders and so the easiest way to achieve this is to place each block of data in...

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Datastore for custom files
For files on Hadoop, the File Datastore makes a temporary copy of the file on the local drive to be read by the ReadFcn. The Rea...

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How to solve ' All the input files must be Sequence files. Invalid file: '' '
This error message occurred because MATLAB could not find the output files generated by the Hadoop Job. For now, this error mess...

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How to solve" The user home directory '/homes/' for the cluster either did not exist or was not writable by the HADOOP user."
The '/homes/' folder is related to the Hadoop property 'mapreduce.admin.user.home.dir'. This is used by Hadoop to set the HOME e...

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How to make a MAT-file that can be used to create a Datastore for MapReduce?
In R2014b there is currently not a direct way of creating a MAT file datastore. However, there are several indirect ways that wi...

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Mapreduce does not seem to use all available cores
In R2014b, there are some limitations with the minimum size of data that can be parallelized. To avoid this limitation, the inpu...

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MCR problems with linux/hadoop
This behavior arises because Hadoop defines the 'HOME' environment variable of task processes to be '/homes' by default. MATLAB ...

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Mandelbrot Numbers
The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set Mandelbrot Set> is built around a simple iterative equation. z(1) = c z...

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Find the longest sequence of 1's in a binary sequence.
Given a string such as s = '011110010000000100010111' find the length of the longest string of consecutive 1's. In this examp...

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Is my wife right?
Regardless of input, output the string 'yes'.

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Encode Roman Numerals
Create a function taking a non-negative integer as its parameter and returning a string containing the Roman Numeral representat...

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Clean the List of Names
Given a list of names in a cell array, remove any duplications that result from different capitalizations of the same string. So...

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Counting in Finnish
Sort a vector of single digit whole numbers alphabetically by their name, in Finnish. See the Wikipedia page for <http://en.wik...

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Indexed Probability Table
This question was inspired by a Stack Overflow question forwarded to me by Matt Simoneau. Given a vector x, make an indexed pro...

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De-dupe
Remove all the redundant elements in a vector, but keep the first occurrence of each value in its original location. So if a =...

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Renaming a field in a structure array
MATLAB has a <http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/setfield.html setfield> and a <http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref...

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Target sorting
Sort the given list of numbers |a| according to how far away each element is from the target value |t|. The result should return...

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Function Iterator
Given a handle fh to a function which takes a scalar input and returns a scalar output and an integer n >= 1, return a handle f...

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Make a Palindrome Number
Some numbers like 323 are palindromes. Other numbers like 124 are not. But look what happens when we add that number to a revers...

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Duplicates
Write a function that accepts a cell array of strings and returns another cell array of strings *with only the duplicates* retai...

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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
Given the string s1, return the string s2 with the target characters removed. For example, given s1 = 'the main event' your ...

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Trimming Spaces
Given a string, remove all leading and trailing spaces (where space is defined as ASCII 32). Input a = ' singular value deco...

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Reverse Run-Length Encoder
Given a "counting sequence" vector x, construct the original sequence y. A counting sequence is formed by "counting" the entrie...

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Swap the first and last columns
Flip the outermost columns of matrix A, so that the first column becomes the last and the last column becomes the first. All oth...

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