4 files changed, 17 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Matrix.hs b/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Matrix.hs
index bf7f0ec..77906dc 100644
--- a/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Matrix.hs
+++ b/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Matrix.hs
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ import Data.Packed.Internal.Vector
 import Foreign hiding (xor)
 import Complex
 import Control.Monad(when)
-import Data.List(transpose,intersperse)
 import Data.Maybe(fromJust)
 import Foreign.C.String
 import Foreign.C.Types
+import Data.List(transpose)
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -199,20 +199,6 @@ instance Field (Complex Double) where
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-instance (Show a, Field a) => (Show (Matrix a)) where
-    show m = (sizes++) . dsp . map (map show) . toLists $ m
-        where sizes = "("++show (rows m)++"><"++show (cols m)++")\n"
-
-dsp as = (++" ]") . (" ["++) . init . drop 2 . unlines . map (" , "++) . map unwords' $ transpose mtp
-    where
-        mt = transpose as
-        longs = map (maximum . map length) mt
-        mtp = zipWith (\a b -> map (pad a) b) longs mt
-        pad n str = replicate (n - length str) ' ' ++ str
-        unwords' = concat . intersperse ", "
-
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 (>|<) :: (Field a) => Int -> Int -> [a] -> Matrix a
 r >|< c = f where
     f l | dim v == r*c = matrixFromVector ColumnMajor c v
diff --git a/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Vector.hs b/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Vector.hs
index 9557206..76bd4d1 100644
--- a/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Vector.hs
+++ b/lib/Data/Packed/Internal/Vector.hs
@@ -103,9 +103,6 @@ at :: Storable a => Vector a -> Int -> a
 at v n | n >= 0 && n < dim v = at' v n
        | otherwise          = error "vector index out of range"
 
-instance (Show a, Storable a) => (Show (Vector a)) where
-    show v = (show (dim v))++" |> " ++ show (toList v)
-
 {- | takes a number of consecutive elements from a Vector
 
 @> subVector 2 3 (fromList [1..10])
diff --git a/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs b/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs
index 2b93348..260c1e0 100644
--- a/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs
+++ b/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 -- Stability   :  provisional
 -- Portability :  portable
 --
--- Matrices
+-- A Matrix representation suitable for numerical computations using LAPACK and GSL.
 --
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ module Data.Packed.Matrix (
     trans, conjTrans,
     asRow, asColumn,
     fromRows, toRows, fromColumns, toColumns,
-    fromBlocks,
+    fromBlocks, repmat,
     flipud, fliprl,
     subMatrix, takeRows, dropRows, takeColumns, dropColumns,
     extractRows,
@@ -215,3 +215,16 @@ readMatrix = fromLists . map (map read). map words . filter (not.null) . lines
 extractRows :: Field t => [Int] -> Matrix t -> Matrix t
 extractRows l m = fromRows $ extract (toRows $ m) l
     where extract l is = [l!!i |i<-is]
+
+{- | creates matrix by repetition of a matrix a given number of rows and columns
+
+@> repmat (ident 2) 2 3 :: Matrix Double
+(4><6)
+ [ 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0
+ , 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0
+ , 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0
+ , 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0 ]@
+
+-}
+repmat :: (Field t) => Matrix t -> Int -> Int -> Matrix t
+repmat m r c = fromBlocks $ partit c $ replicate (r*c) m
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs b/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs
index c893fe7..4c331ef 100644
--- a/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs
+++ b/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 -- Stability   :  provisional
 -- Portability :  portable
 --
--- Vectors
+-- A representation of 1D arrays suitable for numeric computations using external libraries.
 --
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