ntable

== NTable

NTable is an N-dimensional table data structure for Ruby.

=== Summary

NTable provides a convenient data structure for storing n-dimensional tabular data. It works with zero-dimensional scalar values, arrays, tables, and any arbitrary-dimensional hypertables. Each dimension is described by an axis object. The "rows" in that dimension might be identified by numbers or names. You can perform slice operations across any dimension, as well as reductions and dimensional decomposition. Finally, serialization is provided via a custom JSON schema, as well as a simple "hash of hashes" or "array of arrays" approach.

=== Dependencies

NTable is known to work with the following Ruby implementations:

• Standard "MRI" Ruby 1.9.2 or later.
• Rubinius 2.0 or later, in 1.9 mode.
• JRuby 1.6 or later, in 1.9 mode.

=== Installation

Install NTable as a gem:

gem install ntable

=== Development and support

Documentation is available at http://dazuma.github.com/ntable/rdoc

Source code is hosted on Github at http://github.com/dazuma/ntable

Contributions are welcome. Fork the project on Github.

Build status: {}[http://travis-ci.org/dazuma/ntable]

Report bugs on Github issues at http://github.org/dazuma/ntable/issues

Contact the author at dazuma at gmail dot com.

=== Acknowledgments

NTable is written by Daniel Azuma (http://www.daniel-azuma.com).

Development is supported by Pirq (http://www.pirq.com).

Continuous integration service provided by Travis-CI (http://travis-ci.org).

=== License

Copyright 2012 Daniel Azuma

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