Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

Also at the Julia REPL: julia> apropos("standard deviation") randn! stdm std randn help?> std search: std stdm STDIN STDOUT STDERR setdiff setdiff! hist2d hist2d! stride strides StridedArray StridedVector StridedMatrix StridedVecOrMat redirect_stdin std(v[,

[julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

You can even download the entire thing as a PDF, HTML, or EPUB if you want to highlight, annotate, or bookmark your most searched functions. Look in the lower right of the page for "v: latest" and click it for more options. On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 8:03:27 AM UTC+1, Lutfullah Tomak

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

But the original point is still valid: using the search box in the official documentation page http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4, searching for "standard deviation" does not bring up any useful hit, despite the fact that Base.std is fairly well documented and contains the words standard

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

Sorry deleted that post because that wasn't I used.

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

Le vendredi 12 février 2016 à 09:51 +0100, Michele Zaffalon a écrit : > But the original point is still valid: using the search box in the > official documentation page http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4, > searching for "standard deviation" does not bring up any useful hit, > despite the

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

Le vendredi 12 février 2016 à 04:16 -0800, J Luis a écrit : > One main 'dislike' I find in the documentation is that, contrary to > Matlab and R examples that have one page for each function, in julia > we have lots of functions per page with short and often cryptic > descriptions. Example > >

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

On mine, it points to the functions randn and randn! On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Lutfullah Tomak wrote: > For reference, it shows up in my search. > > > http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/search/?q=standard+deviation_keywords=yes=default > > About google side,

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

For reference, I had used just 'deviation'. http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/search/?q=deviation_keywords=yes=default# Another instance of 'standard deviation' shows up in the search but this one when 'standard deviation' is searched.

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

Maybe a good time to repost this link: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#improving-documentation

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

One main 'dislike' I find in the documentation is that, contrary to Matlab and R examples that have one page for each function, in julia we have lots of functions per page with short and often cryptic descriptions. Example std(*v*[, *region*]) Compute the sample standard deviation of a vector

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

For reference, it shows up in my search. http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/search/?q=standard+deviation_keywords=yes=default About google side, I think that MATLAB and R are used for years and thus results are indexed better for them.

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

That's similar to how I learned Matlab programming. They had similar functions listed at the bottom of each function page. Add in the forums and reverse engineering other peoples' code and you have the majority of Matlab learning experience.

Re: [julia-users] Re: Googling the functions I need in Julia is hard

Good point. I tried to use this search box in Juila manual, but get nothing. In R and Matlab, the search would return the function sd/std. I think, not only the "words" in Julia documentation is needed to improved, but also the search engine. On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 12:52:19 AM UTC-8,