Important: The linalg package has been deprecated. Use the superseding command, Vector, instead.

- For information on migrating linalg code to the new packages, see examples/LinearAlgebraMigration.

The vector function is part of the linalg package. It provides a simplified syntax for creating vectors. For a general description of vectors in Maple, see the information under vector.

The calls vector([x1, ..., xn]) and vector(n, [x1, ..., xn]) will produce a vector (a one-dimensional array) of length n containing the given elements.

The call vector(n) will produce a vector of length n with unspecified elements.

The call vector(n, f) will produce a vector of length n whose elements are the result of the function f acting on the index of the vector. Thus vector(n, f) is equivalent to vector(1..n, [f(1), f(2), ..., f(n)]).

Since vectors are represented as one-dimensional arrays, see information under array for further details about how to work with vectors.

The command with(linalg,vector) allows the use of the abbreviated form of this command.

Note:  The online documentation in Maple uses the convention that vector (lowercase "v") refers to an array-based vector used by routines in the linalg package, and Vector (uppercase "V") refers to an rtable-based Vector used by routines in the LinearAlgebra package. See LA_general for more information about linear algebra computations in Maple.

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{linalg}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{vector}\left(\left[5\,4\,6\,3\right]\right)$

$\left[\begin{array}{cccc}5& 4& 6& 3\end{array}\right]$

$\mathrm{vector}\left(4\right)$

$\left[\begin{array}{cccc}{\mathrm{`?`}}_1& {\mathrm{`?`}}_2& {\mathrm{`?`}}_3& {\mathrm{`?`}}_4\end{array}\right]$

$\mathrm{vector}\left(4\,0\right)$

$\left[\begin{array}{cccc}0& 0& 0& 0\end{array}\right]$

$f≔x\mapsto x^2\:$

$v≔\mathrm{vector}\left(4\,f\right)$

$v≔\left[\begin{array}{cccc}1& 4& 9& 16\end{array}\right]$

$v\left[2\right]$

$4$