The Matrix and ndarray
Learn how to use ndarray to model matrix operations in Rust.
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What is ndarray and why it’s useful
The Rust crate ndarray is used to work with arrays. It covers all the classic uses of an array-handling framework, such as numpy for Python.
Some use cases that are not covered by the main crate are covered by corollary crates, such as ndarray-linalg for linear algebra, ndarray-rand to generate randomness, and ndarray-stats for statistics.
Additionally, ndarray also has some nice extra features. These include support for rayon for parallelization and the popular BLAS low-level specs, through one of the working backends (using blas-src).
We can add ndarray to our project with the following command in Cargo.toml:
[dependencies]
ndarray = "0.14.0"
Why use ndarray?
Rustallows for many different types of arrays (or lists), and vector manipulation through powerful iterators, as we have seen in the first part of this course.
The basic Rust ...