[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hmatrix-static: statically-sized linear algebra

[Reiner Pope]

Hi everyone,

I am pleased to announce hmatrix-static[1], a thin wrapper over
Alberto Ruiz's excellent hmatrix library[2] for linear algebra.

The main additions of hmatrix-static over hmatrix are:
 - vectors and matrices have their length encoded in their types
 - vectors and matrices may be constructed and destructed using view
patterns, affording a clean, safe syntax.

hmatrix-static includes statically-sized versions of hmatrix's linear
algebra routines, including:
 - simple arithmetic (addition, multiplication, of matrices and vectors)
 - matrix inversion and least squares solutions
 - determinants / rank / condition number
 - computing eigensystems
 - factorisations: svd, qr, cholesky, hessenberg, schur, lu
 - exponents and sqrts of matrices
 - norms

See http://code.haskell.org/hmatrix-static/examples/ for example code.

Installation and requirements:
Because of the use of type families and view patterns, hmatrix-static
requires GHC 6.10 to build.

The linear algebra routines are ultimately implemented by BLAS, GSL
and LAPACK; see the hmatrix manual [3] for instructions on installing
these, prior to installing hmatrix.

Once this has been done, hmatrix-static can be installed by

$ cabal install hmatrix-static

I would be very interested in your feedback, so please try it out.

Kind regards,
Reiner Pope

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hmatrix-static
[2] http://www.hmatrix.googlepages.com/
[3] http://www.hmatrix.googlepages.com/installation