From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Dec 21 10:04:42 2003
Subject: Missing ND array functionality
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:40:41 -0600

On 20-Dec-2003, Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org> wrote:

| If you have a 3 dimensional array of size (x,y,z), there is not 
| currently a function to "rotate" the dimensions to convert the array to 
| an array of size (y,z,x) (such a conversion in two dimensions would be 
| the same as a transpose). Matlab provides the function "shiftdim" to 
| accomplish this. I think this may be possible using reshape as well.

We have permute and ipermute.  Can shiftdim be based on that?

jwe



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