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Version 3.8.1 released. * configure.ac (OCTAVE_VERSION): Now 3.8.1. (OCTAVE_MINOR_VERSION): Now 1. (OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE): Set to 2014-03-06. Update copyright date for startup message.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:40:35 -0500
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.8:
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2 ---------------------------------------------------------
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4 ** One of the biggest new features for Octave 3.8 is a graphical user
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5 interface. It is the one thing that users have requested most
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6 often over the last few years and now it is almost ready. But
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7 because it is not quite as polished as we would like, we have
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8 decided to wait until the 4.0.x release series before making the
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9 GUI the default interface (until then, you can use the --force-gui
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10 option to start the GUI).
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12 Given the length of time and the number of bug fixes and
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13 improvements since the last major release Octave, we also decided
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14 against delaying the release of all these new improvements any
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15 longer just to perfect the GUI. So please enjoy the 3.8 release of
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16 Octave and the preview of the new GUI. We believe it is working
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17 reasonably well, but we also know that there are some obvious rough
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18 spots and many things that could be improved.
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20 WE NEED YOUR HELP. There are many ways that you can help us fix
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21 the remaining problems, complete the GUI, and improve the overall
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22 user experience for both novices and experts alike:
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24 * If you are a skilled software developer, you can help by
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25 contributing your time to help with Octave's development. See
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26 http://octave.org/get-involved.html for more information.
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28 * If Octave does not work properly, you are encouraged
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29 report the problems you find. See http://octave.org/bugs.html
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30 for more information about how to report problems.
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32 * Whether you are a user or developer, you can help to fund the
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33 project. Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise.
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34 Your contributions help to ensure that Octave will continue to
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35 improve. See http://octave.org/donate.html for more details.
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37 We hope you find Octave to be useful. Please help us make it even
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38 better for the future!
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40 ** Octave now uses OpenGL graphics by default with FLTK widgets. If
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41 OpenGL libraries or FLTK widgets are not available when Octave is
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42 built, gnuplot is used. You may also choose to use gnuplot for
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43 graphics by executing the command
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45 graphics_toolkit ("gnuplot")
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47 Adding this command to your ~/.octaverc file will set the default
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48 for each session.
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50 ** Printing or saving figures with OpenGL graphics requires the
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52 software is widely available in most package managers. If a
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56 ** Octave now supports nested functions with scoping rules that are
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57 compatible with Matlab. A nested function is one declared and defined
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58 within the body of another function. The nested function is only
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59 accessible from within the enclosing function which makes it one
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60 method for making private functions whose names do not conflict with those
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61 in the global namespace (See also subfunctions and private functions).
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62 In addition, variables in the enclosing function are visible within the
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64 which can be seen by a group of functions, but which is not visible in
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65 the global namespace.
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67 Example:
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68 function outerfunc (...)
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69 ...
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70 function nested1 (...)
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72 function nested2 (...)
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73 ...
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74 endfunction
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75 endfunction
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77 function nested3 (...)
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78 ...
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79 endfunction
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80 endfunction
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91 end-of-line comment may appear between them.
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107 A redundant terminal comma is now accepted in matrix
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117 The following syntax is now accepted:
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121 catch exception-id
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122 statements
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125 The exception-id is a structure with the fields "message" and
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128 try
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129 error ("Octave:error-id", "error message");
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130 catch myerr
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131 printf ("identifier: %s\n", myerr.identifier);
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132 printf ("message: %s\n", myerr.message);
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135 When classdef-style classes are added to Octave, the exception-id
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138 ** Warning states may now be set temporarily, until the end of the
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143 in which STATE may be "on", "off", or "error". Changes to warning
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144 states that are set locally affect the current function and all
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145 functions called from the current scope. The previous warning state
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147 option is ignored if used in the top-level workspace.
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149 ** Warning IDs renamed:
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151 Octave:array-as-scalar => Octave:array-to-scalar
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152 Octave:array-as-vector => Octave:array-to-vector
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156 With this addition Octave now accepts the entire set of Matlab options
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157 for regular expressions. 'noemptymatch' is the default, but 'emptymatch'
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158 has certain uses where you need to match an assertion rather than actual
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161 regexprep ('World', '^', 'Hello ', 'emptymatch')
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162 => Hello World
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167 functions now process backslash escape sequences in single-quoted pattern
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168 strings. In addition, the regexprep function now processes backslash
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169 escapes in single-quoted replacement strings. For example,
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171 regexprep (str, '\t', '\n')
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173 would search the variable str for a TAB character (escape sequence \t)
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174 and replace it with a NEWLINE (escape sequence \n). Previously the
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178 ** A TeX parser has been implemented for the FLTK toolkit and is the default
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179 for any text object including titles and axis labels. The TeX parser is
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180 supported only for display on a monitor, not for printing.
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184 Code Feature Example Comment
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185 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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186 _ subscript H_2O formula for water
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187 ^ exponent y=x^2 formula for parabola
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188 \char symbol \beta Greek symbol beta
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189 \fontname font \fontname{Arial} set Arial font
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190 \fontsize fontsize \fontsize{16} set fontsize 16
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191 \color[rgb] fontcolor \color[rgb]{1 0 1} set magenta color
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192 \bf bold \bfBold Text bold font
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193 \it italic \itItalic Text italic font
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194 \sl slanted \slOblique Text slanted font
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195 \rm normal \bfBold\rmNormal normal font
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196 {} group {\bf Bold}Normal group objects
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197 e^{i*\pi} = -1 group objects
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199 ** The m-files in the plot directory have been overhauled.
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200
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201 The plot functions now produce output that is nearly visually compatible
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202 with Matlab. Plot performance has also increased, dramatically for some
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203 functions such as comet and waitbar. Finally, the documentation for most
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204 functions has been updated so it should be clearer both how to use a
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205 function and when a function is appropriate.
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207 ** The m-files in the image directory have been overhauled.
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208
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209 The principal benefit is that Octave will now no longer automatically
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210 convert images stored with integers to doubles. Storing images as uint8
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211 or uint16 requires only 1/8 or 1/4 the memory of an image stored using
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212 doubles. For certain operations, such as fft2, the image must still be
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213 converted to double in order to work.
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215 Other changes include fixes to the way indexed images are read from a
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216 colormap depending on the image class (integer images have a -1 offset to
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217 the colormap row number).
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219 ** The imread and imwrite functions have been completely rewritten.
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221 The main changes relate to the alpha channel, support for reading and
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222 writing of floating point images, implemented writing of indexed images,
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223 and appending images to multipage image files.
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224
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225 The issues that may arise due to backwards incompatibility are:
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226
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227 * imwrite no longer interprets a length of 2 or 4 in the third dimension
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228 as grayscale or RGB with alpha channel (a length of 4 will be saved
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231 * imread will always return the colormap indexes when reading an indexed
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232 image, even if the colormap is not requested as output.
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234 * transparency values are now inverted from previous Octave versions
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235 (0 is for completely transparent instead of completely opaque).
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237 In addition, the function imformats has been implemented to expand
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238 reading and writing of images of different formats through imread
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239 and imwrite.
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240
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241 ** The colormap function now provides new options--"list", "register",
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242 and "unregister"--to list all available colormap functions, and to
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243 add or remove a function name from the list of known colormap
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244 functions. Packages that implement extra colormaps should use these
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245 commands with PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL statements.
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247 ** strsplit has been modified to be compatible with Matlab. There
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250 (1) Delimiters are now string vectors, not scalars.
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251
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252 Octave's legacy behavior
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254 strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ")
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255 ans =
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256 {
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257 [1,1] = 1
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258 [1,2] = 2
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260 [1,4] = 3
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261 }
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263 Matlab compatible behavior
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265 strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ")
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266 ans =
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267 {
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281 It now accepts string inputs in the following numerical formats: 12, 21,
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283 In addition, the default for formats which do not specify a date is
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284 January 1st of the current year. The previous default was the current day,
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285 month, and year. This may produce changes in existing scripts.
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287 ** The error function and its derivatives has been extended to accept complex
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288 arguments. The following functions now accept complex inputs:
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290 erf erfc erfcx
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292 In addition two new error functions erfi (imaginary error function) and
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293 dawson (scaled imaginary error function) have been added.
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295 ** The glpk function has been modified to reflect changes in the GLPK
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296 library. The "round" and "itcnt" options have been removed. The
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297 "relax" option has been replaced by the "rtest" option. The numeric
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298 values of error codes and of some options have also changed.
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300 ** The kurtosis function has changed definition to be compatible with
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301 Matlab. It now returns the base kurtosis instead of the "excess kurtosis".
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302 The old behavior can be had by changing scripts to normalize with -3.
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304 "excess kurtosis" = kurtosis (x) - 3
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306 ** The moment function has changed definition to be compatible with
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307 Matlab. It now returns the central moment instead of the raw moment.
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308 The old behavior can be had by passing the type argument "r" for raw.
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310 ** The default name of the Octave crash dump file is now
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311 "octave-workspace" instead of "octave-core". The exact name can
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312 always be customized with the octave_core_file_name function.
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314 ** A citation command has been added to display information on how to
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315 cite Octave and packages in publications. The package system will
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316 look for and install CITATION files from packages.
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318 ** The java package from Octave Forge is now part of core Octave. The
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319 following new functions are available for interacting with Java
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320 directly from Octave:
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322 debug_java java_matrix_autoconversion
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323 isjava java_unsigned_autoconversion
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324 java2mat javaaddpath
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325 javaArray javaclasspath
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326 javaMethod javamem
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327 javaObject javarmpath
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328 usejava
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329
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330 In addition, the following functions that use the Java interface
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331 are now available (provided that Octave is compiled with support for
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332 Java enabled):
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333
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334 helpdlg listdlg questdlg
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335 inputdlg msgbox warndlg
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339 atan2d erfi lines
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340 base64_decode expint linsolve
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341 base64_encode findfigs missing_component_hook
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342 betaincinv flintmax polyeig
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343 built_in_docstrings_file fminsearch prefdir
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344 cmpermute gallery preferences
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345 cmunique gco readline_re_read_init_file
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346 colorcube hdl2struct readline_read_init_file
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347 copyobj history_save rgbplot
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348 dawson imformats save_default_options
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349 dblist importdata shrinkfaces
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350 desktop isaxes splinefit
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351 doc_cache_create iscolormap stemleaf
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352 ellipj isequaln strjoin
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353 ellipke jit_debug struct2hdl
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354 erfcinv jit_enable tetramesh
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355 jit_startcnt waterfall
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357 ** Deprecated functions.
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359 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.4 and have been
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362 autocor dispatch is_global setstr
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363 autocov fstat krylovb strerror
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364 betai gammai perror values
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365 cellidx glpkmex replot
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366 cquad is_duplicate_entry saveimage
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368 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will
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370 release after 3.8):
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372 default_save_options java_new
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373 gen_doc_cache java_set
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374 interp1q java_unsigned_conversion
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375 isequalwithequalnans javafields
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376 java_convert_matrix javamethods
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377 java_debug re_read_readline_init_file
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378 java_get read_readline_init_file
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379 java_invoke saving_history
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382 The following keywords have been deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will
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384 release after 3.8):
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385
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386 static
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388 The following configuration variables have been deprecated in Octave
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389 3.8 and will be removed from Octave 3.12 (or whatever version is the
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390 second major release after 3.8):
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392 CC_VERSION (now GCC_VERSION)
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393 CXX_VERSION (now GXX_VERSION)
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395 The internal class <Octave_map> has been deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will
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397 release after 3.8). Replacement classes are <octave_map> (struct array)
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398 or <octave_scalar_map> for a single structure.
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400 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.6:
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401 ---------------------------------------------------------
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403 ** The PCRE library is now required to build Octave. If a pre-compiled
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404 package does not exist for your system, you can find PCRE sources
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405 at http://www.pcre.org
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407 ** The ARPACK library is no longer distributed with Octave.
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408 If you need the eigs or svds functions you must provide an
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409 external ARPACK through a package manager or by compiling it
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410 yourself. If a pre-compiled package does not exist for your system,
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411 you can find the current ARPACK sources at
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412 http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng
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415 automatic broadcasting for array operations which allows you to use
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416 operator notation instead of calling bsxfun or expanding arrays (and
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417 unnecessarily wasting memory) with repmat or similar idioms. For
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418 example, to scale the columns of a matrix by the elements of a row
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419 vector, you may now write
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421 rv .* M
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422
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423 In this expression, the number of elements of rv must match the
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424 number of columns of M. The following operators are affected:
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426 plus + .+
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427 minus - .-
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428 times .*
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429 rdivide ./
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430 ldivide .\
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431 power .^ .**
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432 lt <
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433 le <=
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434 eq ==
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435 gt >
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436 ge >=
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437 ne != ~=
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438 and &
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439 or |
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440 atan2
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441 hypot
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442 max
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443 min
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444 mod
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445 rem
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446 xor
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447
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448 additionally, since the A op= B assignment operators are equivalent
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451 += -= .+= .-= .*= ./= .\= .^= .**= &= |=
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453 See the "Broadcasting" section in the new "Vectorization and Faster
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454 Code Execution" chapter of the manual for more details.
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456 ** Octave now features a profiler, thanks to the work of Daniel Kraft
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457 under the Google Summer of Code mentorship program. The manual has
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459 functions are profile, profshow, and profexplore.
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463 Functions now return "single" outputs for inputs of class "single".
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465 75% reduction in memory usage through use of logical indexing.
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467 Random sample functions now use the same syntax as rand and accept
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468 a comma separated list of dimensions or a dimension vector.
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470 Functions have been made Matlab-compatible with regard to special
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471 cases (probability on boundaries, probabilities for values outside
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472 distribution, etc.). This may cause subtle changes to existing
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473 scripts.
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475 negative binomial function has been extended to real, non-integer
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476 inputs. The discrete_inv function now returns v(1) for 0 instead of
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477 NaN. The nbincdf function has been recoded to use a closed form
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478 solution with betainc.
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480 ** strread, textscan, and textread have been completely revamped.
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482 They now support nearly all Matlab functionality including:
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484 * Matlab-compatible whitespace and delimiter defaults
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486 * Matlab-compatible options: 'whitespace', treatasempty', format
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487 string repeat count, user-specified comment style, uneven-length
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488 output arrays, %n and %u conversion specifiers (provisionally)
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490 ** All .m string functions have been modified for better performance or
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491 greater Matlab compatibility. Performance gains of 15X-30X have
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493 quite as high a penalty as those on 2-D character arrays.
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495 deblank: Now requires character or cellstr input.
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498 No longer trims nulls ("\0") from string for Matlab
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499 compatibility.
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501 strmatch: Follows documentation precisely and ignores trailing spaces
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502 in pattern and in string. Note that this is documented
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504 not always follow it.
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505
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506 substr: Now possible to specify a negative LEN option which
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507 extracts to within LEN of the end of the string.
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509 strtok: Now accepts cellstr input.
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511 base2dec, bin2dec, hex2dec:
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512 Now accept cellstr inputs.
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514 dec2base, dec2bin, dec2hex:
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515 Now accept cellstr inputs.
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517 index, rindex:
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525 compatibility.
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527 convhull: Default options are "Qt" for 2D, 3D, 4D inputs
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528 Default options are "Qt Qx" for 5D and higher
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530 delaunay: Default options are "Qt Qbb Qc Qz" for 2D and 3D inputs
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531 Default options are "Qt Qbb Qc Qx" for 4D and higher
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533 voronoi: No default arguments
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536 string now supported.
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538 datestr: Numerical formats 21, 22, 29 changed to match Matlab.
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539 Now accepts cellstr input.
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543 Octave:associativity-change
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544 Octave:complex-cmp-ops
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545 Octave:empty-list-elements
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546 Octave:fortran-indexing
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547 Octave:precedence-change
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548
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550 Octave:mixed-string-concat.
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553 functions:
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554
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555 addpref getpref ispref rmpref setpref
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556
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557 ** The following Matlab-compatible handle graphics functions have been
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558 added:
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559
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560 guidata uipanel uitoolbar
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561 guihandles uipushtool uiwait
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562 uicontextmenu uiresume waitfor
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563 uicontrol uitoggletool
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564
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565 The uiXXX functions above are experimental.
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566
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567 Except for uiwait and uiresume, the uiXXX functions are not
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568 supported with the FLTK+OpenGL graphics toolkit.
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parents: 13923
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569
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570 The gnuplot graphics toolkit does not support any of the uiXXX
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571 functions nor the waitfor function.
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572
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573 ** New keyword parfor (parallel for loop) is now recognized as a valid
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574 keyword. Implementation, however, is still mapped to an ordinary
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575 for loop.
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576
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577 ** Other new functions added in 3.6.0:
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578
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579 bicg nthargout usejava
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580 is_dq_string narginchk waitbar
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parents: 14176
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581 is_sq_string python zscore
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parents: 14176
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582 is_function_handle register_graphics_toolkit
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parents: 14176
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583 loaded_graphics_toolkits recycle
3f2a3076b9a6 NEWS: Update list of functions added for 3.6.0 release.
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parents: 14176
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584
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parents: 12400
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585 ** Deprecated functions.
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parents: 12400
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586
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parents: 12400
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587 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.2 and have been
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parents: 12400
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588 removed from Octave 3.6.
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parents: 12400
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589
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parents: 12400
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590 create_set spcholinv splu
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parents: 12400
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591 dmult spcumprod spmax
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12400
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592 iscommand spcumsum spmin
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12400
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593 israwcommand spdet spprod
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parents: 12400
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594 lchol spdiag spqr
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12400
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595 loadimage spfind spsum
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parents: 12400
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596 mark_as_command sphcat spsumsq
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12400
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597 mark_as_rawcommand spinv spvcat
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598 spatan2 spkron str2mat
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599 spchol splchol unmark_command
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600 spchol2inv split unmark_rawcommand
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601
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parents: 12488
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602 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.6 and will
294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry.
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parents: 12488
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603 be removed from Octave 3.10 (or whatever version is the second major
294c0927c762 Deprecate is_duplicate_entry.
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parents: 12488
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604 release after 3.6):
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parents: 12488
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605
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12803
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606 cut is_duplicate_entry
cad4cba03f19 Deprecate corrcoef, cor and replace with Matlab equivalent corr
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12803
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607 cor polyderiv
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parents: 13933
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608 corrcoef shell_cmd
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parents: 13933
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609 __error_text__ studentize
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parents: 13933
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610 error_text sylvester_matrix
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12574
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611
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>
parents: 14408
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612 ** The following functions have been modified for Matlab compatibility:
d27e638b1c3a NEWS: mention randperm changes
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>
parents: 14408
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613
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>
parents: 14408
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614 randperm
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>
parents: 14408
diff changeset
615
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parents: 12766
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616 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.3:
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617 -----------------------------------------------------------
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618
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parents: 13251
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619 ** Octave 3.4.3 is a bug fixing release.
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620
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parents: 12746
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621 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.2:
1887d8400ba3 First release candidate for 3.4.2
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parents: 12746
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622 -----------------------------------------------------------
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623
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parents: 13251
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624 ** Octave 3.4.2 fixes some minor installation problems that affected
12766
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parents: 12746
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625 version 3.4.1.
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parents: 12746
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626
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627 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.1:
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628 -----------------------------------------------------------
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629
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630 ** Octave 3.4.1 is primarily a bug fixing release.
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631
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parents: 12702
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632 ** IMPORTANT note about binary incompatibility in this release:
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parents: 12464
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633
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634 Binary compatibility for all 3.4.x releases was originally planned,
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parents: 12739
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635 but this is impossible for the 3.4.1 release due to a bug in the way
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parents: 12739
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636 shared libraries were built in Octave 3.4.0. Because of this bug,
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file
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parents: 12739
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637 .oct files built for Octave 3.4.0 must be recompiled before they
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file
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parents: 12739
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638 will work with Octave 3.4.1.
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parents: 12488
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639
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640 Given that there would be binary incompatibilities with shared
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641 libraries going from Octave 3.4.0 to 3.4.1, the following
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parents: 12739
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642 incompatible changes were also made in this release:
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643
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644 * The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library is now
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS.
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parents: 12702
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645 required to build Octave.
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parents: 12400
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646
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647 * Octave's libraries and .oct files are now installed in
89638f2b844a maint: update NEWS
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parents: 12709
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648 subdirectories of $libdir instead of $libexecdir.
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parents: 12709
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649
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parents: 12702
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650 Any future Octave 3.4.x release versions should remain binary
12746
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parents: 12739
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651 compatible with Octave 3.4.1 as proper library versioning is now
07188dbaf89a maint: minor update to NEWS file
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parents: 12739
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652 being used as recommended by the libtool manual.
12709
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parents: 12702
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653
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS.
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parents: 12702
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654 ** The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4.1 and will
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS.
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12702
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655 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS.
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12702
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656 release after 3.4):
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS.
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12702
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657
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parents: 12702
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658 cquad is_duplicate_entry perror strerror
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parents: 12400
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659
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660 ** The following functions are new in 3.4.1:
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parents: 12702
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661
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662 colstyle gmres iscolumn isrow mgorth nproc rectangle
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663
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parents: 12702
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664 ** The get_forge_pkg function is now private.
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parents: 12488
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665
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666 ** The rectangle_lw, rectangle_sw, triangle_lw, and triangle_sw
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS.
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parents: 12702
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667 functions are now private.
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parents: 12702
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668
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parents: 12702
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669 ** The logistic_regression_derivatives and logistic_regression_likelihood
96180026afc5 maint: update NEWS.
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parents: 12702
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670 functions are now private.
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parents: 12488
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671
12739
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parents: 12723
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672 ** ChangeLog files in the Octave sources are no longer maintained
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parents: 12723
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673 by hand. Instead, there is a single ChangeLog file generated from
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS
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parents: 12723
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674 the Mercurial version control commit messages. Older ChangeLog
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS
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parents: 12723
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675 information can be found in the etc/OLD-ChangeLogs directory in the
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS
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parents: 12723
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676 source distribution.
8d2d7f9a17be maint: update NEWS
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parents: 12723
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677
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parents: 11111
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678 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4:
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679 ---------------------------------------------------------
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680
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parents: 9745
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681 ** BLAS and LAPACK libraries are now required to build Octave. The
cfd0aa788ae1 remove reference blas and lapack sources
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parents: 9745
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682 subset of the reference BLAS and LAPACK libraries has been removed
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parents: 9745
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683 from the Octave sources.
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684
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parents: 12413
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685 ** The ARPACK library is now distributed with Octave so it no longer
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parents: 12413
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686 needs to be available as an external dependency when building
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parents: 12413
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687 Octave.
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parents: 9745
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688
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689 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for
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parents: 10117
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690 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the
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parents: 10117
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691 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better
4de5c28733d5 edit NEWS file
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parents: 10117
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692 performance.
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parents: 9215
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693
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parents: 9215
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694 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now
b59cc3252a51 NEWS update
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parents: 9215
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695 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when
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697 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it
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699 using find for performance reasons.
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700
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701 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as
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702 indices. Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the
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703 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized
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704 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted
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705 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and
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706 computing time.
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707
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708 ** The `sub2ind' and `ind2sub' functions were reimplemented as compiled
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709 functions for better performance. These functions are now faster,
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710 can deliver more economized results for ranges, and can reuse the
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711 index cache mechanism described in previous paragraph.
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712
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713 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (`plus',
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714 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept
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715 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing
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716 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types):
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717
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718 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:});
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719
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720 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These
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721 objects allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be
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722 managed. For example,
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723
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724 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org);
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725 cd (fp, "gnu/octave");
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726 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2");
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727 close (fp);
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729 ** The default behavior of `assert (observed, expected)' has been
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730 relaxed to employ less strict checking that does not require the
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731 internals of the values to match. This avoids previously valid
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732 tests from breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future
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733 Octave versions.
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734
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735 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x
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736 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements:
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737
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738 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5))
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739 assert (zeros (0, 0), [])
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740 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5)))
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741
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742 ** The behavior of library functions `ismatrix', `issquare', and
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743 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency.
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744
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745 * The `ismatrix' function now returns true for all numeric,
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746 logical and character 2-D or N-D matrices. Previously, `ismatrix'
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748 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false,
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749 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true.
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750
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751 * The `issquare' function now returns a logical scalar, and is
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752 equivalent to the expression
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753
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754 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x)
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756 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])'
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757 now yields true.
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758
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759 * The `issymmetric' function now checks for symmetry instead of
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760 Hermitianness. For the latter, ishermitian was created. Also,
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761 logical scalar is returned rather than the dimension, so
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762 `issymmetric ([])' is now true.
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763
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764 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a
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765 function is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its
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766 reference which function to call. A non-overloaded version does not
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767 need to exist.
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768
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769 ** Overloading functions for built-in classes (double, int8, cell,
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770 etc.) is now compatible with Matlab.
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771
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772 ** Function handles can now be compared with the == and != operators,
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773 as well as the `isequal' function.
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774
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775 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat',
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776 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional
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777 arrays.
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778
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779 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more
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780 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a
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781 scalar, then the statement
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782
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783 M += S;
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784
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785 will operate on M's data in-place if it is not shared by another
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786 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency.
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787
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788 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely:
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790 matrix += matrix
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791 matrix -= matrix
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792 matrix .*= matrix
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793 matrix ./= matrix
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794
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795 matrix += scalar
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796 matrix -= scalar
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797 matrix *= scalar
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798 matrix /= scalar
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799
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800 logical matrix |= logical matrix
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801 logical matrix &= logical matrix
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802
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803 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand
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804 side must be a simple variable reference.
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805
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806 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will
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808 temporary expression.
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809
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810 ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to
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811 complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict
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812 ordering defined by the `max', `min', and `sort' functions. More
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813 specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical
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814 comparison of the pairs `[abs(z), arg(z)]'. Previously, only real
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815 parts were compared; this can be trivially achieved by converting
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816 the operands to real values with the `real' function.
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817
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818 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has
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819 changed. Octave will now simplify any complex number with a zero
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820 imaginary part or any complex matrix with all elements having zero
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821 imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done only for
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822 positive zeros. Note that the behavior of the complex function is
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823 unchanged and it still produces a complex value even if the
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824 imaginary part is zero.
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825
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826 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary
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827 logical operations are now more easily amenable to compiler
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828 optimizations and are thus significantly faster.
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830 ** Octave now allows user-defined `subsasgn' methods to optimize out
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831 redundant copies. For more information, see the manual.
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833 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to
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834 handle the expressions
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836 M' \ V
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837 M.' \ V
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838 V / M
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840 (M is a matrix and V is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases.
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841 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be
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843 flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical
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844 transpose of M.
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847 operations. For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex
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848 matrix,
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850 RM * CM
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854 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM))
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856 or as
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858 complex (RM) * CM,
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859
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860 depending on the dimensions. The first form requires more
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861 temporaries and copying, but halves the FLOP count, which normally
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862 brings better performance if RM has enough rows. Previously, the
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863 second form was always used.
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865 Matrix division is similarly affected.
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866
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867 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from
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868 factorizations. The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky
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869 factorizations will now automatically return the triangular matrix
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870 factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it won't need
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871 to be computed when the matrix is used for division.
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872
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873 ** The built-in `sum' function now handles the non-native summation
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874 (i.e., double precision sum of single or integer inputs) more
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875 efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of the whole input
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876 array to doubles. Further, `sum' can now accept an extra option
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877 argument, using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a
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878 straightforward sum, which significantly improves precision if lots
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879 of cancellation occurs in the summation.
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880
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881 ** The built-in `bsxfun' function now uses optimized code for certain
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882 cases where built-in operator handles are passed in. Namely, the
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883 optimizations concern the operators `plus', `minus', `times',
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884 `ldivide', `rdivide', `power', `and', `or' (for logical arrays),
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885 the relational operators `eq', `ne', `lt', `le', `gt', `ge', and the
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886 functions `min' and `max'. Optimizations only apply when both
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887 operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex and
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888 single/double operations will first convert both operands to a
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889 common type.
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890
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891 ** The `strfind' and `strrep' functions now have compiled
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892 implementations, facilitating significantly more efficient searching
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893 and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns. The code
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894 of `strcat' has been vectorized and is now much more efficient when
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895 many strings are concatenated. The `strcmpi' and `strncmpi'
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896 functions are now built-in functions, providing better performance.
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898 ** 'str2double' now has a compiled implementation and the API conforms
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899 to Matlab. The additional Octave-specific features of returning a
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900 boolean matrix indicating which elements were successfully converted
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901 has been removed.
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902
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903 ** Matlab-style ignoring input and output function arguments using
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904 tilde (~) is now supported. Ignored output arguments may be
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905 detected from a function using the built-in function `isargout'.
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906 For more details, consult the manual.
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907
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908 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has
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909 been removed.
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910
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911 ** The accumarray function has been optimized and is now significantly
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912 faster in certain important cases.
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913
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914 ** The behavior of isreal and isnumeric functions was changed to be more
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915 Matlab-compatible.
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916
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917 ** The integer math & conversion warnings (Octave:int-convert-nan,
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918 Octave:int-convert-non-int-val, Octave:int-convert-overflow,
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919 Octave:int-math-overflow) have been removed.
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920
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921 ** rem and mod are now built-in functions. They also handle integer
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922 types efficiently using integer arithmetic.
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923
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924 ** Sparse indexing and indexed assignment has been mostly rewritten.
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925 Since Octave uses compressed column storage for sparse matrices,
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926 major attention is devoted to operations manipulating whole columns.
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927 Such operations are now significantly faster, as well as some other
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928 important cases.
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929
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930 Further, it is now possible to pre-allocate a sparse matrix and
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931 subsequently fill it by assignments, provided they meet certain
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932 conditions. For more information, consult the `spalloc' function,
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933 which is no longer a mere dummy. Consequently, nzmax and nnz are no
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934 longer always equal in Octave. Octave may also produce a matrix
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935 with nnz < nzmax as a result of other operations, so you should
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936 consistently use nnz unless you really want to use nzmax (i.e., the
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937 space allocated for nonzero elements).
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938
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939 Sparse concatenation is also affected, and concatenating sparse
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940 matrices, especially larger collections, is now significantly more
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941 efficient. This applies to both the [] operator and the
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942 cat/vertcat/horzcat functions.
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943
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944 ** It is now possible to optionally employ the xGESDD LAPACK drivers
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945 for computing the singular value decomposition using svd, instead
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946 of the default xGESVD, using the configuration pseudo-variable
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947 svd_driver. The xGESDD driver can be up to 6x times faster when
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948 singular vectors are requested, but is reported to be somewhat less
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949 robust on highly ill-conditioned matrices.
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950
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951 ** Configuration pseudo-variables, such as page_screen_output or
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952 confirm_recursive_rmdir (or the above mentioned svd_driver), now
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953 accept a "local" option as second argument, requesting the change
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954 to be undone when the current function returns:
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956 function [status, msg] = rm_rf (dir)
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957 confirm_recursive_rmdir (false, "local");
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958 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s");
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959 ...
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960 endfunction
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962 Upon return, confirm_recursive_rmdir will be restored to the value
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963 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent
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964 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions
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965 it calls.
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966
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967 ** pkg now accepts a -forge option for downloading and installing
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968 packages from Octave Forge automatically. For example,
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970 pkg install -forge general
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973 package and attempt to install it. No automatic resolving of
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975
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976 pkg list -forge
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980 ** The internal data representation of structs has been completely
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982 can now be shared between structs with equal keys but different
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983 dimensions or values, making operations that preserve the fields
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984 faster. Economized storage is now used for scalar structs (just
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985 like most other scalars), making their usage more
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986 memory-efficient. Certain array-like operations on structs
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987 (concatenation, uniform cellfun, num2cell) have gained a
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988 significant speed-up. Additionally, the octave_scalar_map class
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989 now provides a simpler interface to work with scalar structs within
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990 a C++ DLD function.
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992 ** Two new formats are available for displaying numbers:
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993
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994 format short eng
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995 format long eng
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996
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997 Both display numbers in engineering notation, i.e., mantissa +
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
998 exponent where the exponent is a multiple of 3.
10776
062304bd692e Update NEWS with description of new engineering format for numbers.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 10774
diff changeset
999
12418
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
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parents: 12413
diff changeset
1000 ** The following functions are new in Octave 3.4:
12723
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1001 accumdim erfcx nfields pqpnonneg uigetdir
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1002 bitpack fileread nth_element quadcc uigetfile
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1003 bitunpack fminbnd onCleanup randi uiputfile
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1004 blkmm fskipl pbaspect repelems uimenu
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1005 cbrt ifelse pie3 reset whitebg
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1006 curl ishermitian powerset rsf2csf
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1007 chop isindex ppder saveas
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1008 daspect luupdate ppint strread
6ed1e0be181e doc: Update NEWS with new functions for release 3.4.1
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12713
diff changeset
1009 divergence merge ppjumps textread
11109
41d18f6342f9 remove image_viewer function
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 10966
diff changeset
1010
12418
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1011 ** Using the image function to view images with external programs such
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1012 as display, xv, and xloadimage is no longer supported. The
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1013 image_viewer function has also been removed.
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1014
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1015 ** The behavior of struct assignments to non-struct values has been
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1016 changed. Previously, it was possible to overwrite an arbitrary
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1017 value:
11109
41d18f6342f9 remove image_viewer function
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 10966
diff changeset
1018
12418
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1019 a = 1;
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1020 a.x = 2;
10873
8f17e3309a82 update NEWS
Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
parents: 10829
diff changeset
1021
12418
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1022 This is no longer possible unless a is an empty matrix or cell
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1023 array.
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1024
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1025 ** The dlmread function has been extended to allow specifying a custom
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1026 value for empty fields.
10829
61cb53ae9db3 update NEWS
Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
parents: 10776
diff changeset
1027
12418
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1028 ** The dlmread and dlmwrite functions have been modified to accept
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1029 file IDs (as returned by fopen) in addition to file names.
11111
84ad75921e35 edit NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11109
diff changeset
1030
12418
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1031 ** Octave can now optimize away the interpreter overhead of an
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1032 anonymous function handle, if the function simply calls another
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1033 function or handle with some of its parameters bound to certain
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1034 values. Example:
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1035
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1036 f = @(x) sum (x, 1);
10966
07b4cd795742 update NEWS
Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
parents: 10938
diff changeset
1037
12418
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1038 When f is called, the call is forwarded to @sum with the constant 1
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1039 appended, and the anonymous function call does not occur on the
b914e8125f1b NEWS: Use indent of 2 spaces rather than occasional 3 spaces.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 12413
diff changeset
1040 call stack.
10829
61cb53ae9db3 update NEWS
Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
parents: 10776
diff changeset
1041
12424
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1042 ** For compatibility with Matlab, mu2lin (x) is now equivalent to
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1043 mu2lin (x, 0).
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1044
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1045 ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1046 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1047 readline for command-line editing. For example
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1048
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1049 history_control ("ignoredups")
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1050
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1051 tells Octave to avoid adding duplicate lines to the history list.
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1052
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1053 ** Octave now uses the gnulib library for improved portability and to
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1054 avoid bugs in operating system functions.
afb65a7bc065 update NEWS
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 12418
diff changeset
1055
11112
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1056 ** Deprecated functions.
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1057
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1058 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and have been
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1059 removed from Octave 3.4.
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1060
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1061 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1062 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1063 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1064 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1065 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1066 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1067 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1068 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1069 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1070 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1071 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1072 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1073 clearplot is_square t_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1074 clg is_stream t_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1075 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1076 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1077 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1078 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1079 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1080 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1081 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1082 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1083 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1084 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1085 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1086 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1087 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1088 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1089 geometric_inv pascal_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1090
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1091 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.2 and will
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1092 be removed from Octave 3.6 (or whatever version is the second major
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
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1093 release after 3.2):
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
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1094
11390
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1095 create_set spcholinv splu
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1096 dmult spcumprod spmax
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1097 iscommand spcumsum spmin
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1098 israwcommand spdet spprod
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1099 lchol spdiag spqr
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1100 loadimage spfind spsum
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1101 mark_as_command sphcat spsumsq
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1102 mark_as_rawcommand spinv spvcat
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1103 spatan2 spkron str2mat
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
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1104 spchol splchol unmark_command
7ca273af4309 Deprecate sphcat and spvcat functions.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 11330
diff changeset
1105 spchol2inv split unmark_rawcommand
11112
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parents: 11111
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1106
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
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parents: 11111
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1107 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4 and will
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
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1108 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
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1109 release after 3.4):
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
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1110
14354
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Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 14294
diff changeset
1111 autocor cellidx gammai is_global replot values
55bb8c902a4d maint: Remove deprecated functions from dev branch for next (3.8) release.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 14294
diff changeset
1112 autocov dispatch glpkmex krylovb saveimage
55bb8c902a4d maint: Remove deprecated functions from dev branch for next (3.8) release.
Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
parents: 14294
diff changeset
1113 betai fstat intwarning perror strerror
11112
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
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1114
7990
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release
David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 7279
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1115 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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jwe
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1117
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parents: 8439
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1118 ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics has been improved.
6329
1d4b4312f782 [project @ 2007-02-20 06:37:09 by jwe]
jwe
parents: 5995
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1119
8070
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series
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parents: 8014
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1120 The hggroup object and associated listener callback functions have
8737
ae51dc447bab NEWS: update for release
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parents: 8439
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1121 been added allowing the inclusion of group objects. Data sources
8070
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series
David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 8014
diff changeset
1122 have been added to these group objects such that
3b53b25e2550 Add data sources and line series
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parents: 8014
diff changeset
1123
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David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 8014
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1124 x = 0:0.1:10;
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David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 8014
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1125 y = sin (x);
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David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 8014
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1126 plot (x, y, "ydatasource", "y");
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David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 8014
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1127 for i = 1 : 100
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David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 8014
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1128 pause(0.1)
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parents: 8014
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1129 y = sin (x + 0.1 * i);
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parents: 14178
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1130 refreshdata ();
8070
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parents: 8014
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1131 endfor
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parents: 8014
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1132
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parents: 8439
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9031
1052a66078cf Documentation cleanup of top-level Octave directory (READMEs, INSTALL)
Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com>
parents: 8932
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1134 stem-series, bar-series, etc., objects for better Matlab
8737
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1136
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1138
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1139 addlistener ezcontour gcbo refresh
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1140 addproperty ezcontourf ginput refreshdata
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1141 allchild ezmesh gtext specular
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1142 available_graphics_toolkits ezmeshc intwarning surfl
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1143 graphics_toolkit ezplot ishghandle trisurf
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1144 cla ezplot3 isocolors waitforbuttonpress
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1145 clabel ezpolar isonormals
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1146 comet ezsurf isosurface
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1147 dellistener findall linkprop
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1148 diffuse gcbf plotmatrix
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1149
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1150 ** New experimental OpenGL/FLTK based plotting system.
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1151
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1152 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK
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1153 toolkit is now part of Octave. This graphics toolkit is disabled by
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1154 default. You can switch to using it with the command
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1155
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1156 graphics_toolkit ("fltk")
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1157
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1158 for all future figures or for a particular figure with the command
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1159
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1160 graphics_toolkit (h, "fltk")
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1161
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1162 where "h" is a valid figure handle.
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1163
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1164 ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed.
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1165
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1166 The functions __gnuplot_plot__, __gnuplot_set__, __gnuplot_raw__,
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1167 __gnuplot_show__, __gnuplot_replot__, __gnuplot_splot__,
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1168 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been
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1169 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the
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1170 high level graphics handle code.
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1171
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1172 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed.
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1173
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1174 These functions are now available as separate packages from
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1175
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1176 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
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1177
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1178 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see
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1179 the pkg function).
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1180
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1181 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed.
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1182
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1183 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have
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1184 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you
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1185 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix.
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1186
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1187 spatan2 spcumsum spkron spprod
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1188 spchol spdet splchol spqr
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1189 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum
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1190 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk
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1191 spcumprod spinv spmin
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1192
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1193 ** Improvements to the debugger.
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1194
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1195 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping
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1196 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping
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1197 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time
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1198 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with
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1199 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available
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1200 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function
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1201 is available to exit the debugging mode.
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1202
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1203 ** Improved traceback error messages.
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1204
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1205 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to
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1206 understand. They now display information about the function call
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1207 stack instead of the stack of all statements that were active at
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1208 the point of the error.
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1209
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1210 ** Object Oriented Programming.
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1211
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1212 Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own
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1213 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For
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1214 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in
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1215 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific
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1216 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the
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1217 generic versions of these functions.
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1218
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1219 New functions related to OOP include
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1220
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1221 class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto
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1222
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1223 See the Octave manual for more details.
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1224
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1225 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions.
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1226
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1227 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first
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1228 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a
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1229 command-style function calls are
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1230
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1231 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement,
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1232 followed by a space.
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1233
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1234 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '('
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1235
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1236 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary
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1237 operator.
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1238
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1239 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses
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1240 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in
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1241 .m files without having to mark them as commands.
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1242
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1243 Note that previous versions of Octave allowed expressions like
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1244
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1245 x = load -text foo.dat
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1246
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1247 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In
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1248 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable,
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1249 you must use the normal function call syntax:
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1250
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1251 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat");
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1252
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1253 ** Block comments.
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1254
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1255 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and
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1256 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This
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1257 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment
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1258 each line. For example,
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1259
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1260 function [s, t] = func (x, y)
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1261 s = 2 * x;
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1262 #{
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1263 s *= y;
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1264 t = y + x;
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1265 #}
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1266 endfunction
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1267
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1268 the lines "s *= y;" and "t = y + x" will not be executed.
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1270 ** If any subfunction in a file ends with "end" or "endfunction", then
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1271 they all must end that way. Previously, Octave accepted
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1272
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1273 function main ()
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1274 ...
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1275 # no endfunction here.
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1276 function sub ()
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1277 ...
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1278 endfunction
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1279
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1280 but this is no longer allowed.
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1282 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b".
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1284 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and
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1285 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged,
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1286 significantly improving performance for these kinds of
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1287 operations.
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1288
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1289 ** Single Precision data type.
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1291 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single
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1292 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or
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1293 from functions like ones, eye, etc. For example,
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1294
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1295 single (1)
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1296 ones (2, 2, "single")
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1297 zeros (2, 2, "single")
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1298 eye (2, 2, "single")
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1299 Inf (2, 2, "single")
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1300 NaN (2, 2, "single")
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1301 NA (2, 2, "single")
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1302
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1303 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with
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1304 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions
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1305 return single precision types.
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1306
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1307 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal
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1308 representation of the double precision NA value has changed, and
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1309 so users that make use of data generated by Octave with R or
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1310 visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured.
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1311
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1312 ** Improved array indexing.
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1313
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1314 The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been
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1315 completely rewritten and indexing is now significantly faster.
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1316
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1317 ** Improved memory management.
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1318
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1319 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously
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1320 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or
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1321 conversions between cells, structs and cs-lists. This usually reduces
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1322 both time and memory consumption.
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1323 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector
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1324 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from
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1325 the end of the vector.
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1326
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1327 ** Improved performance for reduction operations.
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1328
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1329 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all,
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1330 max and min functions has been significantly improved.
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1331
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1332 ** Sorting and searching.
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1333
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1334 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting
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1335 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted
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1336 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more
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1337 efficient algorithm, especially in the homogeneous case. The lookup
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1338 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search,
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1339 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with
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1340 cell arrays of strings.
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1341
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1342 ** Range arithmetics
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1343
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1344 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the
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1345 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar,
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1346 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero
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1347 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in
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1348 function `ones'.
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1349
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1350 ** Various performance improvements.
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1351
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1352 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions
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1353 was improved, including:
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1354
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1355 * logical operations
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1356 * comparison operators
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1357 * element-wise power
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1358 * accumarray
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1359 * cellfun
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1360 * isnan
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1361 * isinf
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1362 * isfinite
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1363 * nchoosek
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1364 * repmat
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1365 * strcmp
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1366
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1367 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic.
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1368
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1369 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully
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1370 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types.
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1371 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been
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1372 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave
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1373 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the
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1374 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then
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1375 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if
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1376 necessary.
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1377
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1378 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices.
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1379
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1380 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as
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1381 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than
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1382 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct
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1383 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a
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1384 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements.
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1385
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1386 ** Improvements to fsolve.
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1387
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1388 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see
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1390 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function.
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1391 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems,
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1392 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse
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1393 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision
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1394 inputs. It can also be called recursively.
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1395
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1396 ** Improvements to the norm function.
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1397
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1398 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a
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1399 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms.
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1400
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1401 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values.
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1402
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1403 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These
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1404 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a
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1405 GPL-compatible license).
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1406
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1407 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions.
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1408
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1409 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift
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1410 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate
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1411
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1412 ** New quadrature functions.
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1413
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1414 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad
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1415
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1416 ** New functions for reading and writing images.
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1417
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1418 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave.
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1419 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new
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1420 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size,
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1422
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1423 ** The input_event_hook function has been replaced by the pair of
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1424 functions add_input_event_hook and remove_input_event_hook so that
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1425 more than one hook function may be installed at a time.
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1426
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1427 ** Other miscellaneous new functions.
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1428
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1429 addtodate hypot reallog
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1430 bicgstab idivide realpow
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1431 cellslices info realsqrt
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1432 cgs interp1q rectint
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1433 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate
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1434 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath
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1435 convn isstrprop roundb
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1436 cummin log1p rundemos
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1437 cummax lsqnonneg runlength
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1438 datetick matlabroot saveobj
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1439 display namelengthmax spaugment
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1440 expm1 nargoutchk strchr
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1441 filemarker pathdef strvcat
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1442 fstat perl subspace
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1443 full prctile symvar
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1444 fzero quantile treelayout
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1445 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring
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1446 histc
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Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
parents: 8292
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1447
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1448 ** Changes to strcat.
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1449
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1450 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1451 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1452 character strings. For example
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1453
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1454 strcat ('foo ', 'bar')
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1455 ==> 'foobar'
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1456
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1457 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1458 Octave's strcat.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1459
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1460 ** Improvements to the help functions.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1461
9034
52515efc50c0 Documentation cleanup on NEWS file
Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com>
parents: 9031
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1462 The help system has been mostly re-implemented in .m files to make
8885
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1463 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1464 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1465 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1466 to generate cache files for external packages when they are
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1467 installed.
47fb59095191 more NEWS file edits
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8858
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1468
8888
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John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
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1469 ** Deprecated functions.
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1470
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
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1471 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and will be
11112
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
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1472 removed from Octave 3.4 (or whatever version is the second major
8888
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1473 release after 3.0):
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1474
11112
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1475 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1476 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1477 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1478 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1479 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1480 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1481 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1482 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1483 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1484 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1485 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1486 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1487 clearplot is_square t_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1488 clg is_stream t_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1489 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1490 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1491 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1492 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1493 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1494 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1495 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1496 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1497 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1498 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1499 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1500 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1501 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
8888
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1502 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1503 geometric_inv pascal_inv
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1504
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1505 The following functions are now deprecated in Octave 3.2 and will
11112
8ea4cf59c41b list deprecated and removed functions in NEWS file
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 11111
diff changeset
1506 be removed from Octave 3.6 (or whatever version is the second major
8888
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1507 release after 3.2):
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1508
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1509 create_set spcholinv spmax
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1510 dmult spcumprod spmin
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1511 iscommand spcumsum spprod
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1512 israwcommand spdet spqr
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1513 lchol spdiag spsum
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1514 loadimage spfind spsumsq
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1515 mark_as_command spinv str2mat
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1516 mark_as_rawcommand spkron unmark_command
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1517 spatan2 splchol unmark_rawcommand
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1518 spchol split
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1519 spchol2inv splu
0c7b0049c023 mark create_set as deprecated in 3.2, not 3.0
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
parents: 8885
diff changeset
1520
7990
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release
David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
parents: 7279
diff changeset
1521 See NEWS.3 for old news.