From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T02:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: The Challenge of R

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 12:05 pm, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
| On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
| > I did not know NArray worked elementwise. Nice. For numbers at least,
| > that's one hell of a solution Ara ;)
|
| it also works with any objects:
|
|    jib:~ > cat b.rb
|    require 'narray'
|    na = NArray::to_na ['4', '7', '9', '2']
|    puts(na[(na < '5').where].to_a.join)
|
|    jib:~ > ruby b.rb
|    42

Oh, even better. Then what does N stand for? I thought it was Numeric. 

Moreover, what are the important differences between Array and NArray. Why 
does Ruby choose Array over NArray?

Thanks,
T.