clojure.set/map-invert is the closest I can think of in the functions
included with Clojure to your transpose function, but it does not handle
duplicate values the way your transpose does.

Andy


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Bruno Kim Medeiros Cesar <
brunokim...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a standard/library function to transpose a map from key-value to 
> value-keys?
>
> I've met this task many times before, and I'm sure others have too. Here is 
> the code I'm using, mildly highlighted by Google
> Groups. I used to copy-paste from Pygments.org 
> <http://pygments.org/demo/506245/>, but it seems to no longer work.
>
> (defn transpose
>   "Transposes a map of the form k_i -> v_i into v_j -> #{k_j1 k_j2 ...}"
>   [m]
>   (reduce (fn [acc [k v]]
>             (assoc acc v
>               (conj (get acc v #{}) k)))
>           {} m))
>
> (transpose {:a 1 :b 1 :c 2 :d 4 :e 2 :f 1}) ;=> {4 #{:d}, 2 #{:c :e}, 1
> #{:a :b :f}}
>
> (defn inverse-transpose
>   "Transposes back a map of the form v_i -> #{k_i1 k_12 ...} into k_j ->
> v_j"
>   [m]
>   (into {} (mapcat (fn [[v ks]]
>                      (map #(vector %1 %2) ks (repeat v)))
>                    m)))
>
> (inverse-transpose (transpose {:a 1 :b 1 :c 2 :d 4 :e 2 :f 1})) ;=> {:d 4,
> :c 2, :e 2, :a 1, :b 1, :f 1}
>
> (let [m {:a 1 :b 1 :c 2 :d 4 :e 2 :f 1}]
>   (= m (inverse-transpose (transpose m)))) ;=> true
>
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