Assigning an array works in REPL but not in .jl script run from terminal

General Usage
1

I want to include an assignment of a multidimensional array (an array of arrays) to a variable in a script and run that script from the terminal.

I try the assignment in REPL, which works flawlessly. Assigning the first element:

julia> w=Array[[Array[[1.0,0.0,0.0],[0.0],[0.0],[0.0,0.0,-1.0]]]]
1-element Array{Array{T,N},1}:
Array[[1.0,0.0,0.0],[0.0],[0.0],[0.0,0.0,-1.0]]

But when I put exactly the same syntax, namely

w=Array[[Array[[1.0,0.0,0.0],[0.0],[0.0],[0.0,0.0,-1.0]]]]

in a .jl scrip and run it from the terminal i get

~/Julia/Julia_projects/Kalman $ julia test_vectors_2.jl
WARNING: [a] concatenation is deprecated; use collect(a) instead
in depwarn at deprecated.jl:73
in oldstyle_vcat_warning at ./abstractarray.jl:29
in vect at abstractarray.jl:32
in include at ./boot.jl:261
in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:333
in process_options at ./client.jl:280
in _start at ./client.jl:378
while loading /home/philip/Julia/Julia_projects/Kalman/test_vectors_2.jl, in expression starting on line 1

What is wrong?

2

The two shows exactly the same result. You must have hit the same depwarn before so it was not printed again.

3

Note that the Arrays are not completely (concretely) typed, as indicated by the parameters T, N. What happens of you remove the words “Array”?

4

I finally found the right syntax:

(The goal was to create a one dimensional array of arrays to which I can add alements)

This works without warnings in both REPL and run from a script in a Bash terminal:

Testvector    =             Vector in e-frame    lat [degreees]     lon [degrees]    Expected result in n-frame
                    -----------------    --------------    -------------    --------------------------    
w=        Array[    Array[        [1.0,0.0,0.0],         [0.0],        [0.0],        [0.0,0.0,-1.0]            ]]

Add elements to the vector
push!(w, [Array[ [1.0,0.0,0.0], [0.0], [90.0], [0.0,-1.0,0.0] ]])
push!(w, [Array[ [1.0,0.0,0.0], [0.0], [180.0], [0.0,0.0,1.0] ]])
push!(w, [Array[ [1.0,0.0,0.0], [0.0], [-90.0], [0.0,1.0,0.0] ]])
push!(w, [Array[ [1.0,0.0,0.0], [0.0], [-180.0], [0.0,0.0,1.0] ]])

5

Are you using Julia 0.4? If so, I suggest you upgrade to 0.5.

The correct way to create an empty array of arrays of e.g. Float64s and then add things to it is:

julia> w = Vector{Float64}[]
0-element Array{Array{Float64,1},1}

julia> push!(w, [1.0,0.0,0.0], [0.0], [90.0], [0.0,-1.0,0.0])
4-element Array{Array{Float64,1},1}:
 [1.0,0.0,0.0]
 [0.0]
 [90.0]
 [0.0,-1.0,0.0]

In Julia 0.5 (but not in 0.4), you can create the array directly using the syntax that you would expect:

julia> w = [ [1.0,0.0,0.0], [0.0], [90.0], [0.0,-1.0,0.0] ]
4-element Array{Array{Float64,1},1}:
 [1.0,0.0,0.0]
 [0.0]
 [90.0]
 [0.0,-1.0,0.0]

Note that in both cases, you do not get Array{T,N} (i.e. an Array for which the Julia compiler does not know the types contained in it), which will (usually) lead to poor performance.

6

I was on

$ julia -v
julia version 0.4.8-pre

It is comforting that the syntax in Julia 0.5 is more what you would expect.

I use git for my updates and on your recommendation i did

git branch -r
git checkout release-0.5
git pull
git make

Now I am on version

$ julia -v
julia version 0.5.1-pre

Thanks!