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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.3:
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4 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for general-purpose
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5 binary searching. Using this improvement, the ismember function was
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6 rewritten for significantly better performance.
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8 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now
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9 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when
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10 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for
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11 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it is
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12 no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays using
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13 `find' for performance reasons.
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15 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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18 ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics has been improved.
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20 The hggroup object and associated listener callback functions have
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21 been added allowing the inclusion of group objects. Data sources
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22 have been added to these group objects such that
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24 x = 0:0.1:10;
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30 refreshdata();
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31 endfor
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33 works as expected. This capability has be used to introduce
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34 stem-series, bar-series, etc., objects for better Matlab
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35 compatibility.
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37 ** New graphics functions:
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47 dellistener findall linkprop
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48 diffuse gcbf plotmatrix
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52 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK
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53 toolkit is now part of Octave. This backend is disabled by
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54 default. You can switch to using it with the command
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62 where "h" is a valid figure handle. Please note that this backend
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63 does not yet support text objects. Obviously, this is a necessary
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64 feature before it can be considered usable. We are looking for
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65 volunteers to help implement this missing feature.
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67 ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed.
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69 The functions __gnuplot_plot__, __gnuplot_set__, __gnuplot_raw__,
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70 __gnuplot_show__, __gnuplot_replot__, __gnuplot_splot__,
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71 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been
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72 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the
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73 high level graphics handle code.
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75 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed.
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77 These functions are now available as separate packages from
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81 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see
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82 the pkg function).
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86 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have
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87 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you
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96 ** Improvements to the debugger.
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98 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping
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99 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping
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100 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time
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101 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with
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102 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available
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103 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function
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104 is available to exit the debugging mode.
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106 ** Improved traceback error messages.
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108 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to
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109 understand. They now display information about the function call
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110 stack instead of the stack of all statements that were active at
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111 the point of the error.
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113 ** Object Oriented Programming.
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115 Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own
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116 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For
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117 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in
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118 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific
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119 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the
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120 generic versions of these functions.
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122 New functions related to OOP include
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124 class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto
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126 See the Octave manual for more details.
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128 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions.
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130 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first
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131 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a
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134 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement,
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137 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '('
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142 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses
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143 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in
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144 .m files without having to mark them as commands.
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148 x = load -text foo.dat
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150 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In
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151 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable,
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152 you must use the normal function call syntax:
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319 bicgstab idivide realpow
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320 cellslices info realsqrt
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321 cgs interp1q rectint
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322 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate
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323 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath
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324 convn isstrprop roundb
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325 cummin log1p rundemos
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326 cummax lsqnonneg runlength
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327 datetick matlabroot saveobj
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328 display namelengthmax spaugment
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329 expm1 nargoutchk strchr
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330 filemarker pathdef strvcat
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331 fstat perl subspace
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332 full prctile symvar
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333 fzero quantile treelayout
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334 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring
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335 histc
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337 ** Changes to strcat.
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338
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339 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat
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340 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating
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341 character strings. For example
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342
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343 strcat ('foo ', 'bar')
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344 ==> 'foobar'
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345
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346 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of
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347 Octave's strcat.
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348
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349 ** Improvements to the help functions.
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351 The help system has been mostly re-implemented in .m files to make
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352 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been
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353 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that
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354 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified
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355 to generate cache files for external packages when they are
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356 installed.
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358 ** Deprecated functions.
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359
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360 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and will be
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361 removed in Octave 3.4 (or whatever version is the second major
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362 release after 3.0):
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363
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364 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf
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365 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd
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366 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf
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367 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv
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368 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf
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369 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd
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370 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg
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371 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
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372 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
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373 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
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374 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
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375 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
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376 clearplot is_square t_pdf
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377 clg is_stream t_rnd
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378 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
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379 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
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380 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
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381 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
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382 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
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383 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
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384 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
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385 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
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386 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
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387 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
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388 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
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389 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
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390 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
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391 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
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392 geometric_inv pascal_inv
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393
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394 The following functions are now deprecated in Octave 3.2 and will
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395 be removed in Octave 3.6 (or whatever version is the second major
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396 release after 3.2):
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397
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398 create_set spcholinv spmax
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399 dmult spcumprod spmin
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400 iscommand spcumsum spprod
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401 israwcommand spdet spqr
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402 lchol spdiag spsum
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403 loadimage spfind spsumsq
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404 mark_as_command spinv str2mat
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405 mark_as_rawcommand spkron unmark_command
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406 spatan2 splchol unmark_rawcommand
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407 spchol split
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408 spchol2inv splu
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409
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410 See NEWS.3 for old news.