vector

Converts an object to a vector and implements vector and matrix brackets.

Syntax

If X is any object other than a vector, then vector(X) returns X converted into a vector:

If X is a number, the single-element vector (X) is returned.
If X is a matrix of size m×n, the m⋅n-dimensional vector obtained by concatenating the rows of A is returned.
If X is a list of numbers and possibly other objects, the vector containing the numbers in X (in the same order as in X) is returned.
If X is a set, a vector containing all numbers in X is returned. The order of the components is undefined.
If X is a structure, the vector containing the number-typed values in X (in the same order as in X) is returned.

The remaining overloads are mainly supposed to be be accessed implicitly by the vector brackets used to create vectors and matrices:

❨a, b, ...❩, implemented as vector(a, b, ...), returns the vector containing the numbers a, b, ... (in that order).
❨❨a11, a12, ..., a1m❩, ❨a21, a22, ..., a2m❩, ..., ❨an1, an2, ..., anm❩❩ creates the m×n matrix with components aij.

More generally,

❨v1, v2, ..., vm❩, where each vi is a vector of dimension n creates the m×n matrix having the vi’s as its rows.