Package 'symengine'

Title: Interface to the 'SymEngine' Library
Description: Provides an R interface to 'SymEngine' <https://github.com/symengine/>, a standalone 'C++' library for fast symbolic manipulation. The package has functionalities for symbolic computation like calculating exact mathematical expressions, solving systems of linear equations and code generation.
Authors: Jialin Ma [cre, aut], Isuru Fernando [aut], Xin Chen [aut]
Maintainer: Jialin Ma <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 0.2.11
Built: 2026-06-02 09:01:57 UTC
Source: https://github.com/symengine/symengine.r

Help Index

Bindings for Operators and Math Functions

Description

These are S4 methods defined for Basic, VecBasic and DenseMatrix.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'Basic,Basic'
e1 == e2

## S4 method for signature 'Basic,Basic'
e1 != e2

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType,SymEngineDataType'
Arith(e1, e2)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType,vector'
Arith(e1, e2)

## S4 method for signature 'vector,SymEngineDataType'
Arith(e1, e2)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType,missing'
e1 - e2

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType,missing'
e1 + e2

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix,DenseMatrix'
x %*% y

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic,VecBasic'
x %*% y

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix,VecBasic'
x %*% y

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix,vector'
x %*% y

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic,DenseMatrix'
x %*% y

## S4 method for signature 'vector,DenseMatrix'
x %*% y

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
Math(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
sinpi(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
cospi(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
tanpi(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
log(x, base)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
log2(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
log10(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
log1p(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
expm1(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
sum(x, ..., na.rm = FALSE)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
prod(x, ..., na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

e1, e2, x, y, base, ...

Objects.
na.rm

Ignored

Value

== and != will return a logical vector. Other functions will return a Basic, VecBasic or DenseMatrix.

Some Conversion Methods

Description

Miscellaneous S4 methods defined for converting a Basic or VecBasic object to R number/string/language object.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'Basic'
as.character(x)

## S4 method for signature 'Basic'
as.numeric(x)

## S4 method for signature 'Basic'
as.integer(x)

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic'
as.character(x)

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic'
as.numeric(x)

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic'
as.integer(x)

as.language(x)

## S4 method for signature 'Basic'
as.language(x)

Arguments

x

The object to be converted.

Value

Same as default methods of these generics. as.language() may return symbol, integer, double or call.

Methods Related to DenseMatrix

Description

These are miscellaneous S3/S4 methods defined for DenseMatrix class.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'DenseMatrix'
as.matrix(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
dim(x)

## S4 replacement method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
dim(x) <- value

## S4 replacement method for signature 'VecBasic'
dim(x) <- value

## S4 replacement method for signature 'Basic'
dim(x) <- value

## S4 replacement method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
dimnames(x) <- value

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
dimnames(x)

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
length(x)

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix,ANY'
x[[i, j, ...]]

## S4 replacement method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
x[[i, j, ...]] <- value

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
x[i, j, ..., drop = TRUE]

## S4 replacement method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
x[i, j, ...] <- value

Arguments

x

A DenseMatrix object.
i, j, value, ..., drop

Arguments for subsetting, assignment or replacing.

Value

Same or similar with the generics of these methods.

Joining DenseMatrix

Description

S3 methods of cbind and rbind defined for DenseMatrix and VecBasic.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'SymEngineDataType'
cbind(..., deparse.level)

## S3 method for class 'SymEngineDataType'
rbind(..., deparse.level)

Arguments

...

DenseMatrix, VecBasic or R objects.
deparse.level

Not used.

Value

DenseMatrix S4 object.

Code Generation

Description

Generate C/MathML/LaTeX/JavaScript code string from a Basic or VecBasic object.

Usage

codegen(x, type = c("ccode", "mathml", "latex", "jscode"))

Arguments

x

A Basic or a VecBasic object.
type

One of "ccode", "mathml", "latex" and "jscode".

Value

A character vector.

Derivatives of a Symbolic Expression

Description

S4 method of D defined for Basic. It returns the derivative of expr with regards to name. name may be missing if there is only one symbol in expr.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
D(expr, name)

Arguments

expr

A Basic object.
name

A character vector or a Basic object of type Symbol.

Value

Same type as expr argument.

Examples

expr <- S(~ exp(x))
D(expr) == expr
expr <- S(~ x^2 + 2*x + 1)
D(expr)

Calculate the Determinant of DenseMatrix

Description

S4 method of det defined for DenseMatrix.

Usage

det(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
det(x, ...)

Arguments

x

A DenseMatrix object.
...

Unused.

Value

A Basic object.

Examples

mat <- Matrix(LETTERS[1:9], 3)
det(mat)

Double Visitor

Description

Construct DoubleVisitor object from Basic or VecBasic and use it to numerically evaluate symbolic expressions.

Usage

DoubleVisitor(
  exprs,
  args,
  perform_cse = TRUE,
  llvm_opt_level = if (symengine_have_component("llvm")) 3L else -1L
)

visitor_call(visitor, input, do_transpose = FALSE)

Arguments

exprs

A Basic object or a VecBasic object to be evaluated.
args

A VecBasic object indicating order of input arguments. Can be missing.
perform_cse

Boolean.
llvm_opt_level

Integer. If negative, it will return a LambdaDoubleVisitor, otherwise it will return a LLVMDoubleVisitor with the specified optimization level.
visitor

A DoubleVisitor object.
input

A numeric matrix. Each row is input value for one argument.
do_transpose

Boolean. Matters when exprs is a VecBasic. If true, output will have each column for one symbolic expression, otherwise each row for one symbolic expression.

Details

DoubleVisitor constructs the visitor and visitor itself is callable. visitor_call is the low level function to call the visitor with input.

Value

DoubleVisitor returns a callable LambdaDoubleVisitor or LLVMDoubleVisitor. visitor_call returns a numeric vector or matrix.

See Also

lambdify.

Examples

a <- S("a")
b <- S("b")
c <- S("c")
vec <- c(log(a), log(a)/log(b) + c)
func <- DoubleVisitor(vec, args = c(a, b, c))
args(func)

## Use closure
func(a = 1:10, b = 10:1, c = 1.43)

## Use visitor_call
input <- rbind(a = 1:10, b = 10:1, c = 1.43)
visitor_call(func, input, do_transpose = TRUE)

Evaluating a SymEngine Object

Description

This function will evaluate a SymEngine object to its "numerical" form with given precision. User may further use as.double() to convert to R value.

Usage

evalf(expr, bits = 53L, complex = FALSE)

Arguments

expr

A SymEngine object.
bits

The precision.
complex

Whether or not to be evaluated as a complex number.

Value

Same type as expr argument.

Examples

expr <- Constant("pi")
evalf(expr)
as.double(evalf(expr)) == pi

Expand a Symbolic Expression

Description

This function takes a SymEngine object and return its expanded form.

Usage

expand(x)

Arguments

x

A Basic/VecBasic/DenseMatrix S4 object.

Value

Same type as input.

Examples

expr <- S(~ (x + y) ^ 3)
expand(expr)

Create a FunctionSymbol

Description

FunctionSymbol creates a Basic object with type FunctionSymbol. Function returns a generator.

Usage

Function(name)

FunctionSymbol(name, args)

Arguments

name

Name of the function symbol
args

Dependent symbols

Value

FunctionSymbol returns a Basic. Function returns a function that will return a Basic

See Also

S

Examples

f <- Function("f")
a <- Symbol("a")
b <- Symbol("b")
f(a, b)
e <- f(a, f(a + b))
D(e, a)
FunctionSymbol("f", c(a,b))

Get Information about Basic Object

Description

These functions are used to access the underlying properties of a Basic object.

Usage

get_type(x)

get_args(x)

get_hash(x)

get_str(x)

free_symbols(x)

function_symbols(x)

get_name(x)

get_prec(x)

Arguments

x

A Basic object.

Details

get_type

Return the internal type

get_args

Return the internal arguments of a Basic object as a VecBasic

get_hash

Return the hash as a string

get_str

Return the string representation of the Basic object

free_symbols

Return free symbols in an expression

function_symbols

Return function symbols in an expression

get_name

Return name of a Basic object of type FunctionSymbol

get_prec

Return precision of a Basic object of type RealMPFR

Value

  • get_type(), get_hash(), get_str(), get_name() return a string.

  • get_args(), free_symbols(), function_symbols() return a VecBasic S4 object.

  • get_prec() returns an integer.

Convert A Basic/VecBasic Object to R Function

Description

These functions currently use DoubleVisitor to convert a Basic/VecBasic object to a DoubleVisitor which essentially is a S4 class extending R function.

Usage

lambdify(x, args, backend = c("auto", "lambda", "llvm"), perform_cse = TRUE)

## S3 method for class 'BasicOrVecBasic'
as.function(x, args, backend = "auto", perform_cse = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

A Basic object or a VecBasic object.
args

A VecBasic object specifying the arguments of the resulted function. It will be passed to DoubleVisitor and can be missing.
backend

One of "auto", "lambda" and "llvm". If "auto", getOption("lambdify.backend") will be used to determine the value. If that option is not set, it will be determined based on symengine_have_component("llvm").
perform_cse

Passed to DoubleVisitor.
...

Not used

Value

A DoubleVisitor S4 object.

See Also

DoubleVisitor

Some Special Math Functions

Description

These are some special mathematical functions and functions related to number theory.

Usage

LCM(a, b)

GCD(a, b)

nextprime(a)

factorial(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
factorial(x)

choose(n, k)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
choose(n, k)

zeta(a)

lambertw(a)

dirichlet_eta(a)

erf(a)

erfc(a)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType,SymEngineDataType'
atan2(y, x)

kronecker_delta(x, y)

lowergamma(x, a)

uppergamma(x, a)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType,SymEngineDataType'
beta(a, b)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
psigamma(x, deriv = 0L)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
digamma(x)

## S4 method for signature 'SymEngineDataType'
trigamma(x)

Arguments

a, b, x, y, n, k, deriv

SymEngine objects (Basic/VecBasic/DenseMatrix). Some functions require Integer type.

Value

Same type as input.

Methods Related to VecBasic

Description

Miscellaneous S4 methods defined for VecBasic class.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic'
length(x)

## S3 method for class 'VecBasic'
rep(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'Basic'
rep(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'VecBasic'
unique(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'BasicOrVecBasic'
c(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic,numeric'
x[[i, j, ...]]

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic'
x[i, j, ..., drop = TRUE]

## S4 replacement method for signature 'VecBasic'
x[[i]] <- value

## S4 replacement method for signature 'VecBasic'
x[i, j, ...] <- value

Arguments

x

Basic object or Vecbasic object.
i, j, ..., drop, value

Arguments for subsetting or replacing.

Value

Same or similar to the generics.

DenseMatrix Constructor

Description

This function constructs a symbolic matrix (DenseMatrix S4 object) with a similar interface with R's matrix function.

Usage

Matrix(data, nrow = 1L, ncol = 1L, byrow = FALSE)

Arguments

data

A R object.
nrow, ncol

Number of rows and columns.
byrow

Boolean value. Whether the data should be filled by row or by column.

Value

DenseMatrix S4 object.

Converting R object to Basic

Description

'S' and 'Basic' converts a R object to a Basic object. 'Symbol', 'Real' and 'Constant' construct a Basic object with type "Symbol", "RealDouble"/"RealMPFR" and "Constant", respectively.

Usage

S(x)

Basic(x)

Symbol(x)

Constant(x)

Real(x, prec = NULL)

Arguments

x

A R object.
prec

If supplied, the argument will be parsed as a Basic object of type RealMPFR.

Details

For double vector, 'S' will check whether it is a whole number – if true, it will be converted to a Integer type. If this behavior is not desired, you can use 'Basic' or 'as(x, "Basic")'.

Value

A Basic S4 object.

Examples

S("(x + y)^2")
S(~ (x + y)^2)
S(NaN)
S(42)
Basic(42)
as(42, "Basic")
pi <- Constant("pi")
evalf(pi)
if (symengine_have_component("mpfr"))
    evalf(pi, 300)
Real(42)
if (symengine_have_component("mpfr"))
    Real(42, prec = 140)

Solve Symbolic Equations

Description

Solve system of symbolic equations or solve a polynomial equation. Depending on types of arguments, it supports different modes. See Details and Examples.

Usage

solve(a, b, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
solve(a, b, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic'
solve(a, b, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'Basic'
solve(a, b, ...)

Arguments

a, b

Objects, see details.
...

Not used.

Details

solve is a generic function dispatched on the class of the first argument.

  • If a is a (square) DenseMatrix, it solves the equation a %*% x = b for x. (similar to solve.default())

  • If a is a DenseMatrix and b is missing, b is taken to be an identity matrix and solve will return the inverse of a. (similar to solve.default())

  • If a is a VecBasic, it solves the system of linear equations represented by a with regards to symbols represented in b.

  • If a is a Basic, it solves the polynomial equation represented by a with regards to the symbol represented in b.

Value

A VecBasic or DenseMatrix S4 object.

Examples

## Inverse of a symbolic matrix
mat <- Matrix(c("A", "B", "C", "D"), 2)
solve(mat)

## Solve a %*% x == b
a <- Matrix(c("a11", "a21", "a12", "a22"), 2) # a is a 2x2 matrix
b <- Vector("b1", "b2")                       # b is a length 2 vector
solve(a, b)                                   # Solution of x (2x1 matrix)

## Solve the system of linear equations represented by a with regards to
## symbols in b
a <- Vector(~ -2*x + y - 4,  # A system of linear equations
            ~  3*x + y - 9)
b <- Vector(~x, ~y)          # Symbols to solve (x and y)
solve(a, b)                  # Solution of x and y

Substitute Expressions in SymEngine Objects

Description

This function will substitute expr with pairs of values in the dot arguments. The length of dot arguments must be a even number.

Usage

subs(expr, ...)

Arguments

expr

A Basic S4 object.
...

Pairs of Basic objects or values can be converted to Basic. In the order of "from1, to1, from2, to2, ...".

Value

Same type as expr.

symengine: R interface to SymEngine C++ library for symbolic computation

Description

symengine is a R package for symbolic computation.

Details

SymEngine library is a standalone fast symbolic manipulation library written in C++. It allows computation over mathematical expressions in a way which is similar to the traditional manual computations of mathematicians and scientists. The R interface of the library tries to provide a user-friendly way to do symbolic computation in R and can be integrated into other packages to help solve related tasks. The design of the package is somehow similar to the SymPy package in Python. Unlike some other computer algebra systems, it does not invent its own language or domain specific language but uses R language to manipulate the symbolic expressions.

symengine uses the S4 dispatch system extensively to differentiate between calculation over normal R objects and symengine objects. For example, the semantics of sin in ⁠expr <- Symbol("x"); sin(expr)⁠ is different from the sin used over normal R numbers.

Basic class

Basic is simply a S4 class holding a pointer representing a symbolic expression in symengine. Basic objects have the same S4 class but can have different C-level representations which can be accessed via get_type(). For example, Basic(~ 1/2) will have "Rational" type and Basic(1/2) will have "RealDouble" type.

A Basic object will also have a list of associated sub-components which can be accessed via get_args(). For example, (expr <- S("x") * 3L * S("a")) will have type "Mul", and as.list(get_args(expr)) will show the three factors of the multiplication.

A Basic object can be constructed via Basic(), S(), Symbol(), Constant() or Real().

VecBasic and DenseMatrix class

VecBasic and DenseMatrix are S4 classes representing a symbolic vector or matrix. They can be constructed with Vector(), V(), Matrix(), c(), rbind() or cbind(). For example the following code will construct a 2x3 matrix. 

vec <- Vector("a", "b")
cbind(vec, vec^2L, c(S("c"), S("d")))

The following functions are expected to work naturally with VecBasic and DenseMatrix classes.

  • [, [[, ⁠[<-⁠ and ⁠[[<-⁠ for subsetting and assignment.

  • dim(), ⁠dim<-⁠, length(), t(), det(), rbind(), cbind(), c(), rep()

  • %*% for matrix multiplication

  • solve(a, b): solve a %*% x = b where a is a square DenseMatrix and b is a VecBasic/DenseMatrix.

  • solve(a): find the inverse of a where a is a square DenseMatrix.

  • solve(a, b): solve system of linear equations represented by a (VecBasic) with regards to symbols in b (VecBasic).

Further, the R functions that work on Basic objects (e.g. sin) are expected work on VecBasic and DenseMatrix objects as well in a vectorized manner.

Function bindings

The following is a (incomplete) list of functions that are expected to work with symengine objects. Note that these functions can also be used inside a formula or R language objects and passed to S or Basic or Vector to construct symengine objects. For example S(~ sin(x) + 1) and S(quote(sin(x) + 1)).

  • +, -, *, /, ^

  • abs, sqrt, exp, expm1, log, log10, log2, log1p

  • cos, cosh, sin, sinh, tan, tanh, acos, acosh, asin, asinh, atan, atanh

  • cospi, sinpi, tanpi, gamma, lgamma, digamma, trigamma

  • lambertw, zeta, dirichlet_eta, erf, erfc

  • atan2, kronecker_delta, lowergamma, uppergamma, psigamma, beta

Author(s)

Maintainer: Jialin Ma [email protected]

Authors:

See Also

Useful links:

Information about SymEngine Library

Description

Functions to get symengine logo, version and external libraries built with.

Usage

symengine_version()

symengine_ascii_art()

symengine_have_component(
  which = c("mpfr", "flint", "arb", "mpc", "ecm", "primesieve", "piranha", "boost",
    "pthread", "llvm")
)

symengine_compilation_notes()

Arguments

which

A character vector.

Value

Character vector.

Transpose (as) a DenseMatrix

Description

S4 methods of t defined for Basic, VecBasic and DenseMatrix.

Usage

t(x)

## S4 method for signature 'Basic'
t(x)

## S4 method for signature 'VecBasic'
t(x)

## S4 method for signature 'DenseMatrix'
t(x)

Arguments

x

A SymEngine object.

Value

A DenseMatrix S4 object.

Initializing Variables

Description

This is a convenient way to initialize variables and assign them in the given environment.

Usage

use_vars(..., .env = parent.frame(), .quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

...

All the arguments will be quoted and parsed, if a argument is named, the name will be used as the name of variable to assign, otherwise the argument can only be a symbol.
.env

Environment to assign.
.quiet

Whether to supress the message.

Value

Invisibly returns a list of assigned variables.

Examples

use_vars(x, y, expr = "a + b", p = 3.14)
p * x + y
expand(expr^2L)
rm(x, y, expr, p)

Symbolic Vector

Description

A symbolic vector is represented by VecBasic S4 class. Vector and V are constructors of VecBasic.

Usage

Vector(x, ...)

V(...)

Arguments

x, ...

R objects.

Details

There are some differences between Vector and V.

  • For double values, V will check whether they are whole number, and convert them to integer if so. Vector will not.

  • V does not accept "non-scalar" arguments, like Vector(c(1,2,3)).

Value

A VecBasic.

Examples

a <- S("a")
b <- S("b")
Vector(a, b, a + b, 42L)
Vector(list(a, b, 42L))

Vector(1,2,a)
V(1,2,a)