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1 __HEADER__([[[Octave-Forge]]]) |
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3 <p> |
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4 <img src="greensombrero.png" alt="[3D graph]" style="float:right;" /> |
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5 Octave-Forge is a central location for the collaborative |
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6 development of packages for <a href="http://www.octave.org">GNU Octave</a>. |
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7 </p> |
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8 <p> |
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9 The Octave-forge packages contains the source for all the functions and are |
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10 designed to work with the Octave package system. In general the packages are |
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11 designed to work with the latest development version of Octave, but it should |
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12 be possible to use most packages with earlier versions. |
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13 </p> |
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14 <p> |
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15 You can find the list of packages by clicking on the <em>Packages</em> link to the left. |
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16 To install a package, download the package file, and install it from the Octave prompt |
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17 by typing |
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18 </p> |
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19 <p> |
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20 <code> |
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21 pkg install package_file_name.tar.gz |
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22 </code> |
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23 </p> |
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24 <p> |
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25 where <em>package_file_name.tar.gz</em> is the name of the file you downloaded. |
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26 </p> |
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27 <p> |
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28 If you have code to contribute, send a message to the |
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29 <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/octave-dev">repository mailing list</a> |
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30 or <a href="developers.html">join the development team</a>. |
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31 </p> |
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32 </div> |
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33 <div class="section"> |
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34 <h2>Recent News</h2> |
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35 <p>This is a short abbreviated list of the changes that were introduced in |
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36 recent versions of octave-forge. For a full list of changes please |
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37 see the <a href="__BASE_ADDRESS__/NEWS.html">News Archive</a> or the |
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38 <a href="__BASE_ADDRESS__/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.</p> |
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39 <dl> |
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40 <dt>October 20, 2006</dt> |
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41 <dd> |
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42 <p>Octave-forge reorganized as a series of packages for use with |
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43 the Octave package manager. See the <a |
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44 href="__BASE_ADDRESS__/packages.html">packages</a> for more details |
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45 Apart from the changes associated with the conversion to use the |
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46 package manager, the following additional changes are notable:</p> |
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47 <ul> |
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48 <li>odepkg: A new matlab compatible package for ODE that replaces |
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49 the existing extra/ode package</li> |
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50 <li>info-theory: A new package of information theory functions</li> |
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51 <li>linear-algebra: New function bicg</li> |
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52 <li>spline: Allow NDArrays in csape and make it compatible</li> |
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53 <li>comm: New functions fibodeco, fibodeco, fiboenco, fibosplitstream, |
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54 golombdeco, golombenco, huffmandeco, huffmandict, huffmandict, |
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55 huffmanenco, ricedeco, riceenco, rledeco, rleenco, shannonfanodeco, |
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56 shannonfanodict and shannonfanoenco</li> |
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57 <li>specfun: New functions dirac, erfcx, expint_E1, expint_Ei, expint, |
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58 heaviside, psi, Si, sinint and zeta</li> |
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59 <li>statistics: New functions betastat, binostat, chi2stat, |
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60 expstat, fstat, gamstat, geostat, hygestat, lognstat, |
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61 normstat, pascal_stat, poisstat, tstat, unidstat, |
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62 unifstat and weibstat</li> |
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63 <li>polynomial: New function polyint</li> |
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64 <li>miscellaneous: New functions zagzig, zigzag</li> |
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65 <li>image: __magick_read__ Fix for non 8bit Quantum sizes in |
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66 imagemagick</li> |
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67 <li>general bug fixes and improvements</li> |
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68 </ul> |
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69 </dd> |
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70 <dt>July 09, 2006</dt> |
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71 <dd> |
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72 <p>Octave-forge version 200607008 released. This version version |
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73 was the last monolithic release and the first release that only |
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74 supported version of octave later than Octave 2.9.</p> |
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75 <p>An abbreviated list of changes is:</p> |
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76 <ul> |
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77 <li>purge functions moved to Octave and remove pre-2.9.x support.</li> |
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78 <li>comm: new functions pam/genqam/psk mod/demod</li> |
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79 <li>combinatorics: new functions for integer partitions</li> |
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80 <li>geometry: fix qhull problems (finally!?)</li> |
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81 <li>signal: new function square to generate square waves</li> |
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82 <li>statistics: new function hmm viterbi/generate</li> |
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83 <li>strings: remove regexp; api changed when moved to Octave</li> |
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84 <li>linear-algebra: new function for gsvd</li> |
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85 <li>general bug fixes and improvements</li> |
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86 </ul> |
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87 </dd> |
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88 </dl> |
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89 </div> |
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