Hi

I am struggling with using cwise operations. I want to create a matrix from another one by applying an elementwise

matrixA = matrixB < scalarC;

MatrixXd B;
double c;
MatrixXd A = B.cwise() < c;
results in a compilation error YOU_MIXED_DIFFERENT_NUMERIC_TYPES__YOU_NEED_TO_USE_THE_CAST_METHOD_OF_MATRIXBASE_TO_CAST_NUMERIC_TYPES_EXPLICITLY

I have seen in the API-doc of cwise that the operator is defined. To my understanding it is specialized for evaluating purposes. Does anyone know the missing hint in transforming the resulting CwiseBinaryOp object to a matrix?

the result is a matrix of bools, so it complains about different scalar types. you can cast() or select().

PS. strange, this operator isn't mentioned in the online docs, only the one taking a second xpr is mentioned here.
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/classEigen_1_1Cwise.html
Could that be your problem?

Thanks! The cast works fine. It seems I did not understand the identity of CwiseBinaryOp

bjacob wrote:PS. strange, this operator isn't mentioned in the online docs, only the one taking a second xpr is mentioned here.
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/classEigen_1_1Cwise.html
Could that be your problem?

It is there:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/classEig ... b69fe2e55a

Seb wrote:It is there:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/classEig ... b69fe2e55a

This one takes a matrix as second argument. Your notation seemed to imply you were passing a scalar (scalarC). Anyway, good if it's now working for you.

I hope you can help me once more.

I am looking for an operation that gives me a rowwise sum, eg.

MatrixXd A(4,3);
MatrixXd b(4,1);

MatrixXd C = A+b.col(0);

Then C should contain C(i,k) = A(i,k)+b(i)

Is that somehow possible?

At the moment, we don't seem to have anything for that. You can always do

Code: Select all

C = A + (b*RowVectorXd::Ones(3)).lazy();


but this is quite inelegant.

What we need is to have "stacking" expressions and I remember that this has already been asked for. I'll have a look at it, when I can.

bjacob wrote:What we need is to have "stacking" expressions and I remember that this has already been asked for. I'll have a look at it, when I can.

Thanks for answering. I can help myself with dirty hacks until this feature arrives. Thanks!

it is already there ! it is called replicate. I think you can do something like:

c = a + b.replicate(1,a.cols());

or

c = a + b.rowwise().replicate(a.cols());

for more details have a look at the doc.

oh, i'm so out of date :-S