stag.data Namespace Reference

Classes
class	DataPoint
	A data point in d-dimensional space. More...

Functions
stag.utility.DenseMat	load_matrix (str filename)
	Load data into a matrix from a file.

Function Documentation

load_matrix()

stag.utility.DenseMat stag.data.load_matrix

(

str

filename

)

Load data into a matrix from a file.

Each line of the file corresponds to a row in the matrix. On each row, matrix entries should be separated by blank spaces, or commas. Every row in the file must contain the same number of entries.

Lines beginning with '#' or '//' are ignored.

Parameters

filename

the name of the file containing the data

Returns

a stag.utility.DenseMat containing the data from the file

Exceptions

a	runtime exception if the file doesn't exist or cannot be parsed