Sorting an NArray

Ruby
1

I have a 2 dimensional array using NArray and wish to sort the values
based
on the values in column zero or row zero.

How can I achieve this using NArray? I can’t even seem to get the basic
sort
working:-

matrix.sort(0)

gives me a “…blah…:in sort': undefined method <=>’ for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)”

I know I can supply a block to the sort method but the documentation,
such
that it is at:-

http://narray.rubyforge.org/SPEC.en

isn’t that informative and implies that the above line should work?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Chris.

2

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, mekondelta wrote:

(NoMethodError)"
Cheers, Chris.

harp:~ > ruby -r narray -e’ p NArray.to_na([ [5,4,3], [2,1,0] ]) ’
NArray.int(3,2):
[ [ 5, 4, 3 ],
[ 2, 1, 0 ] ]

harp:~ > ruby -r narray -e’ p NArray.to_na([ [5,4,3], [2,1,0]
]).shape ’
[3, 2]

harp:~ > ruby -r narray -e’ p NArray.to_na([ [5,4,3], [2,1,0]
]).sort ’
NArray.int(3,2):
[ [ 0, 1, 2 ],
[ 3, 4, 5 ] ]

sort the 0th thru 0th dims

harp:~ > ruby -r narray -e’ p NArray.to_na([ [5,4,3], [2,1,0]
]).sort(0) ’
NArray.int(3,2):
[ [ 3, 4, 5 ],
[ 0, 1, 2 ] ]

sort the 0th thru 1st dims

harp:~ > ruby -r narray -e’ p NArray.to_na([ [5,4,3], [2,1,0]
]).sort(1) ’
NArray.int(3,2):
[ [ 0, 1, 2 ],
[ 3, 4, 5 ] ]

-a