## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997  Kurt Hornik
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} range (@var{x})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} range (@var{x}, @var{dim})
## If @var{x} is a vector, return the range, i.e., the difference
## between the maximum and the minimum, of the input data.
##
## If @var{x} is a matrix, do the above for each column of @var{x}.
##
## If the optional argument @var{dim} is supplied, work along dimension
## @var{dim}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: Compute range

function y = range (x, varargin)

  if (nargin != 1 && nargin != 2)
    usage ("range (x, dim)");
  endif

  y = max (x, varargin{:}) - min (x, varargin{:});

endfunction