The package has been moved to under JuliaSparse: https://github.com/JuliaSparse/SparseVectors.jl
Best, Dahua On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 10:24:57 PM UTC+8, Dahua Lin wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am pleased to announce a new package SparseVectors: > https://github.com/lindahua/SparseVectors.jl > > Sparse data has become increasingly common in machine learning and related > areas. For example, in document analysis, each document is often > represented as a sparse vector, which each entry represents the number of > occurrences of a certain word. However, the support of sparse vectors > remains quite limited in Julia base. > > This package provides two types SparseVector and SparseVectorView and a > series of methods to work with sparse vectors. Specifically, this package > provides the following functionalities: > > - Construction of sparse vectors > - Get a view of a column in a sparse matrix (of CSC format), or a view > of a range of columns. > - Specialized arithmetic functions on sparse vectors, e.g. +, -, *, > etc. > - Specialized reduction functions on sparse vectors, e.g. sum, > vecnorm, etc. > > It is also worth noting that there's been some discussion (see > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8718) of adding SparseVector to > the Julia Base. Hopefully, this can be added in 0.4. Even this happens, the > package remains useful, as it also works with Julia 0.3 (which won't have > SparseVector support). > > Best, > Dahua > > >
