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The ndarray
crate provides an n-dimensional container for general elements
and for numerics.
In n-dimensional we include, for example, 1-dimensional rows or columns, 2-dimensional matrices, and higher dimensional arrays. If the array has n dimensions, then an element in the array is accessed by using that many indices. Each dimension is also called an axis.
ArrayBase
: The n-dimensional array type itself.
It is used to implement both the owned arrays and the views; see its docs for an overview of all array features.- The main specific array type is
Array
, which owns its elements.
§Highlights
- Generic n-dimensional array
- Slicing, also with arbitrary step size, and negative indices to mean elements from the end of the axis.
- Views and subviews of arrays; iterators that yield subviews.
- Higher order operations and arithmetic are performant
- Array views can be used to slice and mutate any
[T]
data usingArrayView::from
andArrayViewMut::from
. Zip
for lock step function application across two or more arrays or other item producers (NdProducer
trait).
§Crate Status
-
Still iterating on and evolving the crate
- The crate is continuously developing, and breaking changes are expected during evolution from version to version. We adopt the newest stable rust features if we need them.
- Note that functions/methods/traits/etc. hidden from the docs are not considered part of the public API, so changes to them are not considered breaking changes.
-
Performance:
- Prefer higher order methods and arithmetic operations on arrays first, then iteration, and as a last priority using indexed algorithms.
- The higher order functions like
.map()
,.map_inplace()
,.zip_mut_with()
,Zip
andazip!()
are the most efficient ways to perform single traversal and lock step traversal respectively. - Performance of an operation depends on the memory layout of the array or array view. Especially if it’s a binary operation, which needs matching memory layout to be efficient (with some exceptions).
- Efficient floating point matrix multiplication even for very large matrices; can optionally use BLAS to improve it further.
-
MSRV: Requires Rust 1.64 or later
§Crate Feature Flags
The following crate feature flags are available. They are configured in your
Cargo.toml
. See [doc::crate_feature_flags
] for more information.
std
: Rust standard library-using functionality (enabled by default)serde
: serialization support for serde 1.xrayon
: Parallel iterators, parallelized methods, the [parallel
] module and [par_azip!
].approx
Implementations of traits from the [approx
] crate.blas
: transparent BLAS support for matrix multiplication, needs configuration.matrixmultiply-threading
: Use threading frommatrixmultiply
.
§Documentation
-
The docs for
ArrayBase
provide an overview of the n-dimensional array type. Other good pages to look at are the documentation for thes![]
andazip!()
macros. -
If you have experience with NumPy, you may also be interested in
ndarray_for_numpy_users
.
§The ndarray ecosystem
ndarray
provides a lot of functionality, but it’s not a one-stop solution.
ndarray
includes matrix multiplication and other binary/unary operations out of the box.
More advanced linear algebra routines (e.g. SVD decomposition or eigenvalue computation)
can be found in ndarray-linalg
.
The same holds for statistics: ndarray
provides some basic functionalities (e.g. mean
)
but more advanced routines can be found in ndarray-stats
.
If you are looking to generate random arrays instead, check out ndarray-rand
.
For conversion between ndarray
, nalgebra
and
image
check out nshare
.
Modules§
- Producers, iterables and iterators.
- Linear algebra.
- ndarray prelude.
Macros§
- Create an
Array
with one, two, three, four, five, or six dimensions. - Array zip macro: lock step function application across several arrays and producers.
- Concatenate arrays along the given axis.
- Slice argument constructor.
- Stack arrays along the new axis.
Structs§
- An n-dimensional array.
- An axis index.
- Description of the axis, its length and its stride.
- Dimension description.
- Dynamic dimension or index type.
- An iterator of a sequence of evenly spaced floats.
- An iterator of a sequence of logarithmically spaced number.
- A transparent wrapper of
Cell<T>
which is identical in every way, except it will implement arithmetic operators as well. - Token to represent a new axis in a slice description.
- ArcArray’s representation.
- Array’s representation.
- Array pointer’s representation.
- A contiguous array shape of n dimensions.
- An error related to array shape or layout.
- A slice (range with step size).
- Represents all of the necessary information to perform a slice.
- An array shape of n dimensions in c-order, f-order or custom strides.
- Array view’s representation.
- Lock step function application across several arrays or other producers.
Enums§
- CowArray’s representation.
- Error code for an error related to array shape or layout.
- Value controlling the execution of
.fold_while
onZip
. - Array order
- A slice (range with step), an index, or a new axis token.
Traits§
- Argument conversion into an array view
- A producer element that can be assigned to once
- Array representation trait.
- Array representation trait.
- Array representation trait.
- Array representation trait.
- Adds the two dimensions at compile time.
- Array shape and index trait.
- Extra indexing methods for array views
- Argument conversion a dimension.
- Argument conversion into a producer.
- Elements that support linear algebra operations.
- Slicing information describing multiple mutable, disjoint slices.
- Floating-point element types
f32
andf64
. - Tuple or fixed size arrays that can be used to index an array.
- A producer of an n-dimensional set of elements; for example an array view, mutable array view or an iterator that yields chunks.
- Array representation trait.
- Array representation trait.
- Array representation trait.
- Array representation trait.
- Array shape with a next smaller dimension.
- Elements that can be used as direct operands in arithmetic with arrays.
- Array shape argument with optional order parameter
- A trait for
Shape
andD where D: Dimension
that allows customizing the memory layout (strides) of an array shape. - A type that can slice an array of dimension
D
.
Functions§
- Create a new dimension value.
- Create a zero-dimensional index
- Create a one-dimensional index
- Create a two-dimensional index
- Create a three-dimensional index
- Create a four-dimensional index
- Create a five-dimensional index
- Create a six-dimensional index
- Create a dynamic-dimensional index
- Create a zero-dimensional array with the element
x
. - Create a one-dimensional array with elements from
xs
. - Create a two-dimensional array with elements from
xs
. - Create a three-dimensional array with elements from
xs
. - Create a zero-dimensional array view borrowing
x
. - Create a one-dimensional array view with elements borrowing
xs
. - Create a two-dimensional array view with elements borrowing
xs
. - Create a one-dimensional read-write array view with elements borrowing
xs
. - Create a two-dimensional read-write array view with elements borrowing
xs
. - Concatenate arrays along the given axis.
- Create an iterable of the array shape
shape
. - Return an iterable of the indices of the passed-in array.
- Return an iterator of evenly spaced floats.
- An iterator of a sequence of logarithmically spaced numbers.
- Return an iterator of floats from
a
tob
(exclusive), incrementing bystep
. - Create a one-dimensional array with elements from
xs
. - Create a two-dimensional array with elements from
xs
. - Create a three-dimensional array with elements from
xs
. - Stack arrays along the new axis.
Type Aliases§
- An array where the data has shared ownership and is copy on write.
- one-dimensional shared ownership array
- two-dimensional shared ownership array
- An array that owns its data uniquely.
- zero-dimensional array
- one-dimensional array
- two-dimensional array
- three-dimensional array
- four-dimensional array
- five-dimensional array
- six-dimensional array
- dynamic-dimensional array
- A read-only array view.
- zero-dimensional array view
- one-dimensional array view
- two-dimensional array view
- three-dimensional array view
- four-dimensional array view
- five-dimensional array view
- six-dimensional array view
- dynamic-dimensional array view
- A read-write array view.
- zero-dimensional read-write array view
- one-dimensional read-write array view
- two-dimensional read-write array view
- three-dimensional read-write array view
- four-dimensional read-write array view
- five-dimensional read-write array view
- six-dimensional read-write array view
- dynamic-dimensional read-write array view
- An array with copy-on-write behavior.
- Array index type
- zero-dimensionial
- one-dimensional
- two-dimensional
- three-dimensional
- four-dimensional
- five-dimensional
- six-dimensional
- dynamic-dimensional
- Array index type (signed)
- A read-only array view without a lifetime.
- A mutable array view without a lifetime.