grapes-inner-grapes: Numerical and Symbolic Inner Product

In calculus: High Dimensional Numerical and Symbolic Calculus

Numerical and Symbolic Inner Product

Description

Computes the inner product of two numeric or character arrays.

Usage

x %inner% y

Arguments

x	numeric or character array.
y	numeric or character array.

Details

The inner product between two arrays A and B is computed as:

C = \sum_{j_1\dots j_n} A_{j_1\dots j_n}B_{j_1\dots j_n}

Value

numeric or character.

References

Guidotti E (2022). "calculus: High-Dimensional Numerical and Symbolic Calculus in R." Journal of Statistical Software, 104(5), 1-37. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v104.i05")}

See Also

Other basic arithmetic: %diff%(), %div%(), %dot%(), %kronecker%(), %outer%(), %prod%(), %sum%()

Examples

### numeric inner product 
x <- array(1:4, dim = c(2,2))
x %inner% x

### symbolic inner product 
x <- array(letters[1:4], dim = c(2,2))
x %inner% x

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