[PD] tabletool

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Looks like a super useful library.  My question to you is why did you  
decide to make it a single object with messages for the actions?   
IMHO, it should be a library of objects.  The library would be called  
'tabletool', then instead of messages, they functions would be  
objects.  Having all the answers to the messages come out the signal  
outlet would make it hard to parse the data.  They could be something  
like the math objects but for tables.

I am thinking something like:

[bang(
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[tabletool/mean table-1]
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[bang(
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[tabletool/min table-1]
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[10(
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[tabletool/equals table-1]
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[0.5(
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[tabletool/nearest table-1]
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.hc


On May 13, 2010, at 6:27 PM, William Brent wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I've been meaning to make this extern for a long time, and today was
> the day.  It's a table manipulation tool that covers the top items on
> my table wish-list for now.  I'm sure there are plenty more things to
> add. There is a lot of redundant functionality with list-abs and some
> with zexy (like table dumping). Here's a link where you can download
> the extern & source, and a list of functions. It's hot off the press
> and not tested, so if anyone has time to check it, let me know of bugs
> and I'll correct them.  I hope this ends up being useful for someone
> besides me...
>
> http://williambrent.conflations.com/pages/research.html#tabletool
>
> - dumping a table to a list
> - reporting the length of a table
> - offsetting (adding a constant to all values)
> - scaling (multiplying all values by a scalar)
> - curve smoothing
> - shifting values forward or back by index
> - shuffling values randomly
> - sorting values low to high
> - reversing
> - inverting
> - normalizing to a specified range
> - normalizing so values sum to 1.0
> - copying a source table to a target table
> - copying a specified range of a source table to a target table
> - lacing alternating values from two tables into one table
> - table sum
> - table mean
> - table arithmetic mean
> - table geometric mean
> - table integration
> - table differentiation
> - counting occurrences of a value
> - index (or multiple indices) of a particular value
>
>
>
> -- 
> William Brent
> www.williambrent.com
>
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>
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