[PD] basic stats on a table?

[Jamie Bullock]

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:21 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:
> 
> > What is the best (least cpu usage) way to get some basic stats on the
> > content of a table?
> 
> Are externals allowed? Then either vasp or the iem_tab externals may be
> worth a look, i.e.:
> 
>   iem_tab is written by Thomas Musil from IEM Graz Austria and it is
>   compatible to miller puckette's pd-0.37-3 to pd-0.39-2.  see also
>   LICENCE.txt, GnuGPL.txt.
>   
>   The objects of iem_tab manipulate tables or arrays; you can set
>   constant, copy, fft, ifft, reverse, find minimum or maximum, compare,
>   add, subtract, mul tiplicate, divide arrays.

There is of course the mighty zexy also. In there you have:

tabminmax: get the minimum and maximum of a table (I think this is what
Ben wants to do)
tabdump: dump the contents of the table to a list
unpack~/pack~ : convert between list and signal

If you want to do complex things, you could unpack~ the table contents
into a signal, then get your stats from the signal vector. For example
you could use something like xtract~ (from libXtract) to get a whole
bunch of different stats from the audio vector if you wanted. 

Jamie

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