NAME

PDL::VectorValued - Utilities for vector-valued PDLs

SYNOPSIS

use PDL;
use PDL::VectorValued;

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## ... stuff happens

DESCRIPTION

PDL::VectorValued provides generalizations of some elementary PDL functions to higher-order PDLs which treat vectors as "data values".

ALIASES

To facilitate incorporation of selected vector-valued functions into the PDL core, the PDL:PP-, XS-, C-, and perl-level functions defined by this module in the PDL::VectorValued::Utils package namespace all carry a vv_ prefix as of PDL::VectorValued v1.0.19 Prior to v1.0.19, many of these functions (e.g. cmpvec()) were defined by this module without a vv_ prefix.

For PDL::VectorValued >= v1.0.19 and PDL > v2.079, most vector-valued functions are expected to be defined in the PDL core. For such "moving" functions FUNC, the PDL core implementations will be imported into the PDL::VectorValued namespace as both FUNC and vv_FUNC, clobbering any local implementation from the PDL::VectorValued::Utils namespace. Local implementations vv_FUNC which were previously defined and exported as FUNC or for which no binding for *PDL::FUNC exists will be bound to both *PDL::VectorValued::FUNC and *PDL::FUNC, and exported by default, for backwards-compatibility.

Functions expected to move to the PDL core are:

  • New code should use FUNC() or PDL::FUNC().

  • Backwards-compatible code can use FUNC() or PDL::VectorValued::FUNC().

  • Direct use of PDL::VectorValued::Utils::vv_FUNC() is deprecated.

  • Direct use of PDL::VectorValued::Utils::FUNC() is likely broken as of PDL::VectorValued v1.0.19.

FUNCTIONS

vv_uniqvec

Signature: (v(N,M); [o]vu(N,MU))

Drop-in replacement for broken uniqvec() which uses vv_qsortvec(). Otherwise copied from PDL::Primitive::primitive.pd.

See also: PDL::VectorValued::Utils::vv_qsortvec, PDL::Primitive::uniqvec.

Higher-Order Run-Length Encoding and Decoding

The following functions generalize the builtin PDL functions rle() and rld() for higher-order "values".

See also: PDL::VectorValued::Utils::vv_rlevec(), PDL::VectorValued::Utils::vv_rldvec().

vv_rleND

Signature: (data(@vdims,N); int [o]counts(N); [o]elts(@vdims,N))

Run-length encode a set of (sorted) n-dimensional values.

Generalization of rle() and vv_rlevec(): given set of values $data, generate a vector $counts with the number of occurrences of each element (where an "element" is a matrix of dimensions @vdims ocurring as a sequential run over the final dimension in $data), and a set of vectors $elts containing the elements which begin a run. Really just a wrapper for clump() and rlevec().

See also: PDL::Slices::rle, PDL::Ngrams::VectorValued::Utils::vv_rlevec.

vv_rldND

Signature: (int counts(N); elts(@vdims,N); [o]data(@vdims,N);)

Run-length decode a set of (sorted) n-dimensional values.

Generalization of rld() and rldvec(): given a vector $counts() of the number of occurrences of each @vdims-dimensioned element, and a set $elts() of @vdims-dimensioned elements, run-length decode to $data().

Really just a wrapper for clump() and rldvec().

See also: PDL::Slices::rld, PDL::VectorValued::Utils::rldvec

Datatype Utilities

vv_indx

Signature: vv_indx()

Returns PDL::Type subclass used for indices. If built with PDL < v2.007, this should return PDL::long, otherwise PDL::indx.

Low-Level Functions

Some additional low-level functions are provided in the PDL::VectorValued::Utils package. See PDL::VectorValued::Utils for details.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

perl by Larry Wall.

AUTHOR

Bryan Jurish <moocow@cpan.org>

PDL by Karl Glazebrook, Tuomas J. Lukka, Christian Soeller, and others.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2022, Bryan Jurish. All rights reserved.

This package is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), PDL(3perl), PDL::VectorValued::Utils(3perl)