For easy reference: https://github.com/ChrisRackauckas/VectorizedRoutines.jl
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Chris Rackauckas <rackd...@gmail.com> wrote: > So far I've only gathered implementations of functions I know of. It would > also be nice to build a list of functions which should be added. > > > On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 4:34:09 PM UTC-7, Chris Rackauckas wrote: >> >> Hey, >> After some discussion (and letting the idea hang around for a long >> time) I decided to create VectorizedRoutines.jl. The idea behind this >> package is to include the useful and familiar vectorized routines that one >> knows and loves from MATLAB/R/Python. An example of such functions include >> things like meshgrid or accumarray. The reason for the package is >> three-fold: >> >> 1) Such a package will help newcomers who are first trying Julia and used >> to using these functions >> 2) It will make porting codes to Julia easier (even though it is already >> easy!) >> 3) Sometimes these functions are a really quick solution to a problem. >> They can be nice to use! >> >> The functions I am looking to store here are ones not included into >> Base. There are good reasons for not wanting to bloat Base with all of >> these: in many cases they are not necessary (nor the best way to things) in >> Julia because Julia does not require vectorization like other scripting >> languages. Thus I see a package dedicated to holding these functions (while >> making sure they achieve optimal performance, have proper >> documentation/testing) as a viable alternative. >> >> Please feel free to submit pull requests for your own implementations >> of "popular/familiar" functions you are missing in Julia. Also, feel free >> to submit pull requests for "non-standard" vectorized routines which follow >> the same vein and are generally useful. Please include a docstring to >> discuss its usage or have it link to proper documentation. Also, feel free >> to donate some tests! If this begins to build into something really useful, >> I will make sure that this gets proper documentation through Documenter.jl >> and add it to METADATA. >> >
