Le lun. 5 juil. à 05:56, Martin Maechler a écrit :
>>>>>> "PatB" == Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com>
>>>>>> on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:43:44 +0100 writes:
>
> PatB> Is there a reason that 'which.min' and
> PatB> 'which.max' don't have an 'arr.ind'
> PatB> argument?
>
> well, help(which.min) tells you that they really were aimed at
> doing their job *fast* for vectors.
>
> Of course you are right and a generalization to arrays might be
> convenient at times.
>
> PatB> The context in which I wanted that was
> PatB> a grid search optimization, which seems
> PatB> like it would be reasonably common to me.
>
> well, as the author of these two functions, I can only say
>
> "patches are welcome!"
>
> and I think should be pretty simple, right ?
> You just have to do very simple remapping of the 1d index 'i' back
> to the array index, i.e., the same operation
> you need to transform seconds into days:hours:minutes:seconds
> {{and yes, we old-timers may recall that APL had an operator (I
> think "T-bar") to do that ...}
Ah, a reference to APL! That made my day. :-)
APL was very big among actuaries for a long time. I heard recently that it was
still in use on an old system in some small insurance company. I still have on
my shelves the reference books for APL*Plus III for Windows (that I ran in
OS/2) from Magnugistics; they have an actuarial formula on the cover.
I teach my students arbitrary base conversion to do just what the encode/decode
operators (to call them by their names) were doing. I see this new arrayInd()
sort of does the same thing now. Darn, this steals me an exercise!
Cheers,
Vincent
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
>
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