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Revision: 1.7
Committed: Sat May 31 21:33:21 2014 UTC (10 years ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rad5R2, rad4R2P2, rad5R0, rad5R1, rad4R2, rad4R2P1
Changes since 1.6: +8 -3 lines
Log Message:
Added rmtxop command for manipulating component matrices

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1 .\" RCSid "$Id: rcollate.1,v 1.6 2014/05/30 16:50:43 greg Exp $"
2 .TH RCOLLATE 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE
3 .SH NAME
4 rcollate - resize or transpose matrix data
5 .SH SYNOPSIS
6 .B rcollate
7 [
8 .B \-h[io]
9 ][
10 .B \-w
11 ][
12 .B \-f[afdb][N]
13 ][
14 .B \-t
15 ][
16 .B "\-ic in_col"
17 ][
18 .B "\-ir in_row"
19 ][
20 .B "\-oc out_col"
21 ][
22 .B "\-or out_row"
23 ]
24 [
25 .B input.dat
26 ]
27 .SH DESCRIPTION
28 .I Rcollate
29 reads in a single matrix file (table) and reshapes it to have
30 the number of columns specified by the
31 .I \-oc
32 option.
33 By default, the file is assumed to include an information header, which
34 is copied to the standard output along with the command name.
35 The
36 .I \-hi
37 option may be used to turn off the expectation of a header on input.
38 The
39 .I \-ho
40 option turns off header output, and
41 .I \-h
42 by itself turns off both input and output headers.
43 The
44 .I \-w
45 option turns off non-fatal warning messages, such as unexpected EOD.
46 .PP
47 The input format is assumed to be ASCII, with three white-space separated words
48 (typically numbers) in each record.
49 A different input format may be specified with the
50 .I \-f
51 option.
52 The suboptions are
53 .I \-fa,
54 .I \-ff,
55 .I \-fd,
56 and
57 .I \-fb
58 for ASCII, float, double, and binary, respectively.
59 An optional count may be attached to specify the number of data elements per
60 record, which defaults to 1.
61 Thus, the default setting is
62 .I \-fa3.
63 Since
64 .I rcollate
65 does not interpret the fields, all binary options of the same
66 length have the same result.
67 On most architectures,
68 .I \-ff6,
69 .I \-fd3,
70 and
71 .I \-fb24
72 would all be equivalent.
73 Note that the lack of row separators in binary files means that
74 .I rcollate
75 does not actually do anything for binary files unless the transpose
76 option is given, also.
77 .PP
78 If an input header is present, it may contain the format, number of components
79 and matrix dimensions.
80 In such cases, the
81 .I \-ic,
82 .I \-ir
83 and
84 .I \-f
85 options are not required, but will be checked against the header
86 information if provided.
87 .PP
88 The transpose option,
89 .I \-t
90 swaps rows and columns on the input.
91 For binary files, the user must specify at least one input or output
92 dimension to define the matrix size.
93 For ASCII files,
94 .I rcollate
95 will automatically determine the number of columns based on the
96 position of the first EOL (end-of-line) character, and the number
97 of rows based on the total count of records in the file.
98 The user may override these determinations, allowing the matrix to
99 be resized as well as transposed.
100 If input and output dimensions are given, the number of input rows
101 must equal the number of output columns,
102 and the number of input columns must equal the number of output rows.
103 For large transpose operations on Unix systems, it is most efficient
104 to specify the input file on the command line, rather than reading
105 from the standard input, since
106 .I rcollate
107 can map the file directly into virtual memory.
108 .SH EXAMPLE
109 To change put 8760 color triplets per row in a matrix with no header:
110 .IP "" .2i
111 rcollate -h \-oc 8760 input.dat > col8760.dat
112 .PP
113 To transpose a binary file with 145 float triplets per input row:
114 .IP "" .2i
115 rcollate -ff3 -ic 145 -t orig.flt > transpose.flt
116 .PP
117 To create an appropriate header for a binary float matrix as required by
118 .I rmtxop(1)\:
119 .IP "" .2i
120 rcollate -hi -ff3 -or 145 -oc 8760 input.smx | rmtxop dcoef.dmx - > res.txt
121 .SH AUTHOR
122 Greg Ward
123 .SH NOTES
124 The
125 .I rcollate
126 command is rather inflexible when it comes to output field and record
127 separators for ASCII data.
128 It accepts any amount of white space between fields
129 on input, but only produces spaces as field separators
130 between words and tabs as record separators on output.
131 Output row separtors will always be an EOL, which may differ between systems.
132 .PP
133 If no options are given on the command line, or a binary file is specified
134 without a transpose,
135 .I rcollate
136 issues a warning and simply copies its input to its standard output.
137 .SH "SEE ALSO"
138 cnt(1), histo(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rlam(1), rmtxop(1), tabfunc(1), total(1)