Introduction — xtensor-r documentation (original) (raw)
R bindings for the xtensor C++ multi-dimensional array library.
What are xtensor and xtensor-r?
xtensoris a C++ library for multi-dimensional arrays enabling numpy-style broadcasting and lazy computing.xtensor-renables inplace use of R arrays with all the benefits fromxtensor
- C++ universal functions and broadcasting
- STL - compliant APIs.
The numpy to xtensor cheat sheet from the xtensor documentation shows how numpy APIs translate to C++ with xtensor.
The Python bindings for xtensor are based on the Rcpp C++ library, which enables seemless interoperability between C++ and Python.
Enabling R arrays in your C++ libraries
Instead of exposing new types to R, xtensor-r enables the use of R data structures from C++ using R’s C API.
In addition to the basic accessors and iterators of xtensor containers, it also enables using R arrays with xtensor’s expression system.
Besides xtensor-r provides an API to create Universal functions from simple scalar functions from your C++ code.
xtensor and xtensor-r require a modern C++ compiler supporting C++14. The following C++ compilers are supported:
- On Windows platforms, Visual C++ 2015 Update 2, or more recent
- On Unix platforms, gcc 4.9 or a recent version of Clang
Licensing
We use a shared copyright model that enables all contributors to maintain the copyright on their contributions.
This software is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. See the LICENSE file for details.
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