[scilab-Users] Looking for a function

[Sébastien Bihorel]

Thanks Mathieu,

You confirm what I suspected. I would to build the function myself, using a
code similar to yours but recursive... Not a big deal, though.

Sebastien

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Mathieu Dubois <mathieu.dubois at limsi.fr>wrote:

> Hello Sébastien,
>
> Thanks to Gianluca I gave a second look to your message.
>
> I think that mlist and function overloading fit your needs (see attachment
> and scilab's help).
>
> Please note that I'm not an expert in scilab's mlist so this code comes "as
> is" with no express or implied warranty for accuracy or accessibility, blah,
> blah, blah,...
>
> HTH,
> Mathieu
>
> Sébastien Bihorel wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is a function in Scilab that allows to display
>> lists in a compact way rather than as a (sometime endless) listing. I did
>> not see any link to such function in 'help list'. For those of you who are
>> familiar in the R language, I am looking for something like the 'str'
>> function, as exemplified below:
>>
>> > mylist<-list(a=list(abc=1:10,xyz=letters[1:15]),
>>               elem=matrix(1:10,ncol=2))
>> > mylist
>> $a
>> $a$abc
>>  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
>>
>> $a$xyz
>>  [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o"
>>
>>
>> $elem
>>     [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]    1    6
>> [2,]    2    7
>> [3,]    3    8
>> [4,]    4    9
>> [5,]    5   10
>>
>> > str(mylist)
>> List of 2
>>  $ a   :List of 2
>>  ..$ abc: int [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>>  ..$ xyz: chr [1:15] "a" "b" "c" "d" ...
>>  $ elem: int [1:5, 1:2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sebastien
>>
>
>
> // R syntax
> //mylist<-list(a=list(abc=1:10,xyz=letters[1:15]),
> //               elem=matrix(1:10,ncol=2))
>
> clc;
> clear;
>
> mylist=mlist(['V', 'a', 'xyz', 'elem'], 1:10, 'a':'o', matrix(1:10,
> [5,2]));
>
> typeof(mylist)
>
> //define display
> function []=%V_p(M)
>  disp('Hello I''m an overloaded function');
>  disp('Field a is');
>  disp(string(M.a));
>  disp('Field xyz is');
>  disp(string(M.xyz));
>  disp('Field elem is')
>  disp(string(M.elem));
> endfunction
>
> mylist
>
>
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