The core.matrix library provides array programming as a language extension for Clojure/Clojurescript, with a focus on numerical computing.
core.matrix will become an official part of Clojure Contrib now that the API is mature and proven, at which point this repo will move to org.clojure/core.matrix
The central objective of core.matrix
is to make matrix and array programming
idiomatic, productive, elegant and fast in the Clojure environment.
(+ [[1 2]
[3 4]]
(* (identity-matrix 2) 3.0))
=> [[4.0 2.0]
[3.0 7.0]]
(shape [[2 3 4] [5 6 7]]) ; => [2 3]
(mmul
(array [[2 2] [3 3]])
(array [[4 4] [5 5]])) ; => [[18 18] [27 27]]
;; Note: nested Clojure vectors can be used as matrices
Key goals of core.matrix:
For general core.matrix
documentation and examples see the Wiki:
API documentation is available here
For a general introduction, the slide and video from the 2013 Clojure Conj talk are available here:
To develop for clojurescript you will need to use the cljs-dev profile like this:
lein with-profile +cljs-dev repl
or using figwheel:
lein with-profile +cljs-dev figwheel
To build the Clojurescript unit tests you can run:
lein with-profile +cljs cljsbuild once
and then load resources/public/test.html in a browser to run the tests.
A Docker setup is available for quick reproducable envivironment.
To build the dev environment image. This is currently based on clojure:openjdk-11-lein-buster
image.
`docker build -f ./docker/Dockerfile . -t core.matrix-dev`
To run the build after the dev image is ready
`docker run --rm core.matrix-dev`
To run interactive bash shell for adhoc build commands
`docker run -it --entrypoint bash core.matrix-dev`
core.matrix
is fully functional and usable in production applications. As well as supporting
the standard Clojure data structures, multiple back end implementations exist that provide optimised
matrix implementations. The most mature implementations are currently:
core.matrix
itselfFor Clojurescript:
The API is relatively mature but still subject to some changes at present (at least up until release 1.0.0), so users should be prepared to deal with potential breaking changes when updating to future releases.
All contributions / ideas welcome!
There are a number of proposed enhancements listed as GitHub issues: these are a good place to start if you wish to contribute to core.matrix:
If you wish to contribute code, please ensure you have a Clojure Contributors Agreement signed and on file. For more information see:
Discussions related to core.matrix generally take place on the "Numerical Clojure" group:
If you are interested in writing a core.matrix
implementation, see:
You can also find a protocol implementation summary here:
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