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Bug 1487

Summary: cwise Operations
Product: Eigen Reporter: Timo Sachsenberg <sachsenb>
Component: SparseAssignee: Nobody <eigen.nobody>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Documentation CC: chtz, gael.guennebaud
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.3 (current stable)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Timo Sachsenberg 2017-11-16 11:13:13 UTC
Hi,
I love the tables that show what/how operations can be performed on matrices and vectors. Unfortunately, documentation falls a bit short for sparse matrices and sparse vectors. Assuming that most of you guys probably spend their precious time working on other topics I think it would still make a great difference to provide such a table on e.g.: https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/group__TutorialSparse.html

I had some troubles (and still don't fully understand) why:
(sv1 - sv2).cwiseAbs() or sv1.sum() works but e.g.:
sv1.cwiseMin(1.0) doesn't (requires sv1.coeffs().cwiseMin(1.0))

I also quite often run into errors like:
error: ‘const CwiseAbsReturnType’ has no member named ‘coeffs’
float sum = (sv1 - sv2).cwiseAbs().coeffs().cwiseMax(0).sum();

or error: ‘Constant’ is not a member of ‘Eigen::CwiseUnaryOp<Eigen::internal::scalar_abs_op<float>, const Eigen::SparseVector<float> >’
float sum = sv1.cwiseAbs().cwiseMax(0).sum();

while: float sum = sv1.coeffs().cwiseMax(0).sum(); compiles

I guess these are probably newbie errors but I thought it might be worth to give feedback and some hints where the documentation could be improved,
Timo
Comment 1 Nobody 2019-12-04 17:17:30 UTC
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