## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997  Kurt Hornik
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with this file.  If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

## usage:  range (x)
##
## If x is a vector, return the range, i.e., the difference between the
## maximum and the minimum, of the input data.
## If x is a matrix, do the above for each column of x.

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

function y = range (x)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("range (x)");
  endif

  y = max (x) - min (x);

endfunction