changeset 18049:3fef9a2d2550

maint: Remove functions deprecated in 3.6 for 4.0 release. * NEWS: Add notice about removal of deprecated functions. * etc/NEWS.3: Correct deprecation list from 3.6 which incorrectly named is_duplicate_entry. * scripts/deprecated/module.mk: Remove deprecated scripts from build system. * scripts/deprecated/__error_text__.m, scripts/deprecated/cor.m, scripts/deprecated/corrcoef.m, scripts/deprecated/cut.m, scripts/deprecated/error_text.m, scripts/deprecated/polyderiv.m, scripts/deprecated/shell_cmd.m, scripts/deprecated/studentize.m, scripts/deprecated/sylvester_matrix.m: Remove files from source control.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:29:03 -0800
parents 46c131e5676e
children 2d3b1037fd12
files NEWS etc/NEWS.3 scripts/deprecated/__error_text__.m scripts/deprecated/cor.m scripts/deprecated/corrcoef.m scripts/deprecated/cut.m scripts/deprecated/error_text.m scripts/deprecated/module.mk scripts/deprecated/polyderiv.m scripts/deprecated/shell_cmd.m scripts/deprecated/studentize.m scripts/deprecated/sylvester_matrix.m
diffstat 12 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 676 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/NEWS	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ b/NEWS	Mon Dec 02 13:29:03 2013 -0800
@@ -5,6 +5,23 @@
 
       validateattributes
 
+ ** Deprecated functions.
+
+    The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.6 and have been
+    removed from Octave 4.0.
+                                           
+      cut                polyderiv        
+      cor                shell_cmd        
+      corrcoef           studentize       
+      __error_text__     sylvester_matrix 
+      error_text         
+
+    The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 4.0 and will
+    be removed from Octave 4.4 (or whatever version is the second major
+    release after 4.0):
+
+    *none*
+
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 
 See NEWS.3 for old news.
--- a/etc/NEWS.3	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ b/etc/NEWS.3	Mon Dec 02 13:29:03 2013 -0800
@@ -603,11 +603,11 @@
     be removed from Octave 3.10 (or whatever version is the second major
     release after 3.6):
 
-      cut                is_duplicate_entry
-      cor                polyderiv
-      corrcoef           shell_cmd 
-      __error_text__     studentize
-      error_text         sylvester_matrix
+      cut                polyderiv
+      cor                shell_cmd 
+      corrcoef           studentize
+      __error_text__     sylvester_matrix
+      error_text         
 
  ** The following functions have been modified for Matlab compatibility:
 
--- a/scripts/deprecated/__error_text__.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 2012-2013 John W. Eaton
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Built-in Function} {[@var{msg}, @var{msgid}] =} __error_text__ (@var{msg}, @var{msgid})
-## This function has been deprecated.  Use @code{lasterr} instead.
-## @seealso{lasterr}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-function [msg, msgid] = __error_text__ (varargin)
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "__error_text__ is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use lasterr instead");
-  endif
-
-  [msg, msgid] = lasterr (varargin{:});
-
-endfunction
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/cor.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Kurt Hornik
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} cor (@var{x})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} cor (@var{x}, @var{y})
-## Compute matrix of correlation coefficients.
-##
-## This is an alias for @code{corrcoef}.
-## @seealso{corrcoef}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-function retval = cor (x, y = x)
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "cor is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use corr instead");
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-  retval = corrcoef (x, y);
-
-endfunction
-
-
-%!test
-%! x = rand (10, 2);
-%! assert (cor (x), corrcoef (x), 5*eps);
-%! assert (cor (x(:,1), x(:,2)) == corrcoef (x(:,1), x(:,2)));
-
-%% Test input validation
-%!error corrcoef ();
-%!error corrcoef (1, 2, 3);
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/corrcoef.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 1996-2013 John W. Eaton
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} corrcoef (@var{x})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} corrcoef (@var{x}, @var{y})
-## Compute matrix of correlation coefficients.
-##
-## If each row of @var{x} and @var{y} is an observation and each column is
-## a variable, then the @w{(@var{i}, @var{j})-th} entry of
-## @code{corrcoef (@var{x}, @var{y})} is the correlation between the
-## @var{i}-th variable in @var{x} and the @var{j}-th variable in @var{y}.
-## @tex
-## $$
-## {\rm corrcoef}(x,y) = {{\rm cov}(x,y) \over {\rm std}(x) {\rm std}(y)}
-## $$
-## @end tex
-## @ifnottex
-##
-## @example
-## corrcoef(x,y) = cov(x,y)/(std(x)*std(y))
-## @end example
-##
-## @end ifnottex
-## If called with one argument, compute @code{corrcoef (@var{x}, @var{x})},
-## the correlation between the columns of @var{x}.
-## @seealso{cov}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-## Author: Kurt Hornik <hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
-## Created: March 1993
-## Adapted-By: jwe
-
-function retval = corrcoef (x, y = [])
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "corrcoef is not equivalent to Matlab and will be removed from a future version of Octave; for similar functionality see corr");
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-  ## Input validation is done by cov.m.  Don't repeat tests here
-
-  ## Special case, scalar is always 100% correlated with itself
-  if (isscalar (x))
-    if (isa (x, 'single'))
-      retval = single (1);
-    else
-      retval = 1;
-    endif
-    return;
-  endif
-
-  ## No check for division by zero error, which happens only when
-  ## there is a constant vector and should be rare.
-  if (nargin == 2)
-    c = cov (x, y);
-    s = std (x)' * std (y);
-    retval = c ./ s;
-  else
-    c = cov (x);
-    s = sqrt (diag (c));
-    retval = c ./ (s * s');
-  endif
-
-endfunction
-
-
-%!test
-%! x = rand (10);
-%! cc1 = corrcoef (x);
-%! cc2 = corrcoef (x, x);
-%! assert (size (cc1) == [10, 10] && size (cc2) == [10, 10]);
-%! assert (cc1, cc2, sqrt (eps));
-
-%!test
-%! x = [1:3]';
-%! y = [3:-1:1]';
-%! assert (corrcoef (x,y), -1, 5*eps)
-%! assert (corrcoef (x,flipud (y)), 1, 5*eps)
-%! assert (corrcoef ([x, y]), [1 -1; -1 1], 5*eps)
-
-%!test
-%! x = single ([1:3]');
-%! y = single ([3:-1:1]');
-%! assert (corrcoef (x,y), single (-1), 5*eps)
-%! assert (corrcoef (x,flipud (y)), single (1), 5*eps)
-%! assert (corrcoef ([x, y]), single ([1 -1; -1 1]), 5*eps)
-
-%!assert (corrcoef (5), 1);
-%!assert (corrcoef (single(5)), single(1));
-
-%% Test input validation
-%!error corrcoef ();
-%!error corrcoef (1, 2, 3);
-%!error corrcoef ([1; 2], ["A", "B"]);
-%!error corrcoef (ones (2,2,2));
-%!error corrcoef (ones (2,2), ones (2,2,2));
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/cut.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 1996-2013 Kurt Hornik
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {} cut (@var{x}, @var{breaks})
-## Create categorical data from numerical or continuous data by
-## cutting into intervals.
-##
-## If @var{breaks} is a scalar, the data is cut into that many
-## equal-width intervals.  If @var{breaks} is a vector of break points,
-## the category has @code{length (@var{breaks}) - 1} groups.
-##
-## The returned value is a vector of the same size as @var{x} telling
-## which group each point in @var{x} belongs to.  Groups are labelled
-## from 1 to the number of groups; points outside the range of
-## @var{breaks} are labelled by @code{NaN}.
-## @seealso{histc}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
-## Description: Cut data into intervals
-
-function group = cut (x, breaks)
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "cut is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use histc instead");
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin != 2)
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-  if (!isvector (x))
-    error ("cut: X must be a vector");
-  endif
-  if (isscalar (breaks))
-    breaks = linspace (min (x), max (x), breaks + 1);
-    breaks(1) = breaks(1) - 1;
-  elseif (isvector (breaks))
-    breaks = sort (breaks);
-  else
-    error ("cut: BREAKS must be a scalar or vector");
-  endif
-
-  group = NaN (size (x));
-  m = length (breaks);
-  if (any (k = find ((x >= min (breaks)) & (x < max (breaks)))))
-    n = length (k);
-    group(k) = sum ((ones (m, 1) * reshape (x(k), 1, n))
-                    >= (reshape (breaks, m, 1) * ones (1, n)));
-  endif
-
-endfunction
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/error_text.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 2012-2013 John W. Eaton
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Built-in Function} {[@var{msg}, @var{msgid}] =} error_text (@var{msg}, @var{msgid})
-## This function has been deprecated.  Use @code{lasterr} instead.
-## @seealso{lasterr}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-function [msg, msgid] = error_text (varargin)
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "error_text is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use lasterr instead");
-  endif
-
-  [msg, msgid] = lasterr (varargin{:});
-
-endfunction
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/module.mk	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ b/scripts/deprecated/module.mk	Mon Dec 02 13:29:03 2013 -0800
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 FCN_FILE_DIRS += deprecated
 
 deprecated_FCN_FILES = \
-  deprecated/__error_text__.m \
-  deprecated/cor.m \
-  deprecated/corrcoef.m \
-  deprecated/cut.m \
   deprecated/default_save_options.m \
-  deprecated/error_text.m \
   deprecated/gen_doc_cache.m \
   deprecated/interp1q.m \
   deprecated/isequalwithequalnans.m \
@@ -20,13 +15,9 @@
   deprecated/java_set.m \
   deprecated/javafields.m \
   deprecated/javamethods.m \
-  deprecated/polyderiv.m \
   deprecated/re_read_readline_init_file.m \
   deprecated/read_readline_init_file.m \
-  deprecated/saving_history.m \
-  deprecated/shell_cmd.m \
-  deprecated/studentize.m \
-  deprecated/sylvester_matrix.m
+  deprecated/saving_history.m
 
 FCN_FILES += $(deprecated_FCN_FILES)
 
--- a/scripts/deprecated/polyderiv.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 1994-2013 John W. Eaton
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} polyderiv (@var{p})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{k}] =} polyderiv (@var{a}, @var{b})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{q}, @var{d}] =} polyderiv (@var{b}, @var{a})
-## Return the coefficients of the derivative of the polynomial whose
-## coefficients are given by the vector @var{p}.  If a pair of polynomials
-## is given, return the derivative of the product @math{@var{a}*@var{b}}.
-## If two inputs and two outputs are given, return the derivative of the
-## polynomial quotient @math{@var{b}/@var{a}}.  The quotient numerator is
-## in @var{q} and the denominator in @var{d}.
-## @seealso{poly, polyint, polyreduce, roots, conv, deconv, residue,
-## filter, polygcd, polyval, polyvalm}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-## Author: Tony Richardson <arichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
-## Created: June 1994
-## Adapted-By: jwe
-
-function [q, d] = polyderiv (p, a)
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "polyderiv is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use polyder instead");
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin == 1 || nargin == 2)
-    if (! isvector (p))
-      error ("polyderiv: argument must be a vector");
-    endif
-    if (nargin == 2)
-      if (! isvector (a))
-        error ("polyderiv: argument must be a vector");
-      endif
-      if (nargout == 1)
-        ## derivative of p*a returns a single polynomial
-        q = polyderiv (conv (p, a));
-      else
-        ## derivative of p/a returns numerator and denominator
-        d = conv (a, a);
-        if (numel (p) == 1)
-          q = -p * polyderiv (a);
-        elseif (numel (a) == 1)
-          q = a * polyderiv (p);
-        else
-          q = conv (polyderiv (p), a) - conv (p, polyderiv (a));
-          q = polyreduce (q);
-        endif
-
-        ## remove common factors from numerator and denominator
-        x = polygcd (q, d);
-        if (length(x) != 1)
-          q = deconv (q, x);
-          d = deconv (d, x);
-        endif
-
-        ## move all the gain into the numerator
-        q = q/d(1);
-        d = d/d(1);
-      endif
-    else
-      lp = numel (p);
-      if (lp == 1)
-        q = 0;
-        return;
-      elseif (lp == 0)
-        q = [];
-        return;
-      endif
-
-      ## Force P to be a row vector.
-      p = p(:).';
-
-      q = p(1:(lp-1)) .* [(lp-1):-1:1];
-    endif
-  else
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-endfunction
-
-
-%!assert(all (all (polyderiv ([1, 2, 3]) == [2, 2])));
-
-%!assert(polyderiv (13) == 0);
-
-%!error polyderiv ([]);
-
-%!error polyderiv ([1, 2; 3, 4]);
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/shell_cmd.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Rik Wehbring
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## "-*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Built-in Function} {} shell_cmd (@var{string})
-## @deftypefnx {Built-in Function} {} shell_cmd (@var{string}, @var{return_output})
-## @deftypefnx {Built-in Function} {} shell_cmd (@var{string}, @var{return_output}, @var{type})
-## @deftypefnx {Built-in Function} {[@var{status}, @var{output}] =} shell_cmd (@dots{})
-## @deftypefnx {Built-in Function} {[@var{status}, @var{output}] =} shell_cmd (@var{string}, @var{return_output}, @var{type})
-## Execute a shell command specified by @var{string}.
-## If the optional argument @var{type} is @qcode{"async"}, the process
-## is started in the background and the process id of the child process
-## is returned immediately.  Otherwise, the process is started and
-## Octave waits until it exits.  If the @var{type} argument is omitted, it
-## defaults to a value of @qcode{"sync"}.
-## 
-## If the optional argument @var{return_output} is true and the subprocess
-## is started synchronously, or if @var{shell_cmd} is called with one input
-## argument and one or more output arguments, then the output from the command
-## is returned.  Otherwise, if the subprocess is executed synchronously, its
-## output is sent to the standard output.
-##
-## The @code{shell_cmd} function can return two values.  The first is the
-## exit status of the command and the second is any output from the
-## command that was written to the standard output stream.  For example,
-## 
-## @example
-## [status, output] = shell_cmd ("echo foo; exit 2");
-## @end example
-## 
-## @noindent
-## will set the variable @code{output} to the string @samp{foo}, and the
-## variable @code{status} to the integer @samp{2}.
-## 
-## For commands run asynchronously, @var{status} is the process id of the
-## command shell that is started to run the command.
-## @seealso{system, unix, dos}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-## Deprecated in version 3.6
-
-function [status, output] = shell_cmd (varargin)
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "shell_cmd is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use system instead");
-  endif
-
-  [status, output] = system (varargin{:});
-
-endfunction
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/studentize.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Kurt Hornik
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} studentize (@var{x})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} studentize (@var{x}, @var{dim})
-## If @var{x} is a vector, subtract its mean and divide by its standard
-## deviation.
-##
-## If @var{x} is a matrix, do the above along the first non-singleton
-## dimension.
-## If the optional argument @var{dim} is given, operate along this dimension.
-## @seealso{center}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
-## Description: Subtract mean and divide by standard deviation
-
-function t = studentize (x, dim)
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "studentize is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use zscore instead");
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin != 1 && nargin != 2)
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-  if (! isnumeric(x))
-    error ("studentize: X must be a numeric vector or matrix");
-  endif
-
-  if (isinteger (x))
-    x = double (x);
-  endif
-
-  nd = ndims (x);
-  sz = size (x);
-  if (nargin != 2)
-    ## Find the first non-singleton dimension.
-    dim = find (sz > 1, 1);
-    if (isempty (dim))
-      dim = 1;
-    endif
-  else
-    if (!(isscalar (dim) && dim == fix (dim))
-        || !(1 <= dim && dim <= nd))
-      error ("studentize: DIM must be an integer and a valid dimension");
-    endif
-  endif
-
-  c = sz(dim);
-  if (c == 0)
-    t = x;
-  else
-    idx = ones (1, nd);
-    idx(dim) = c;
-    t = x - repmat (mean (x, dim), idx);
-    t = t ./ repmat (max (cat (dim, std(t, [], dim), ! any (t, dim)), [], dim), idx);
-  endif
-
-endfunction
-
-
-%!assert(studentize ([1,2,3]), [-1,0,1])
-%!assert(studentize (int8 ([1,2,3])), [-1,0,1])
-#%!assert(studentize (ones (3,2,0,2)), zeros (3,2,0,2))
-%!assert(studentize ([2,0,-2;0,2,0;-2,-2,2]), [1,0,-1;0,1,0;-1,-1,1])
-
-%% Test input validation
-%!error studentize ()
-%!error studentize (1, 2, 3)
-%!error studentize ([true true])
-%!error studentize (1, ones(2,2))
-%!error studentize (1, 1.5)
-%!error studentize (1, 0)
-%!error studentize (1, 3)
-
--- a/scripts/deprecated/sylvester_matrix.m	Mon Dec 02 13:07:38 2013 -0800
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 1996-2013 John W. Eaton
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {} sylvester_matrix (@var{k})
-## Return the Sylvester matrix of order
-## @tex
-## $n = 2^k$.
-## @end tex
-## @ifnottex
-## n = 2^@var{k}.
-## @end ifnottex
-##
-## @seealso{toeplitz, hankel}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-## Author: jwe
-
-function retval = sylvester_matrix (k)
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "sylvester_matrix is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use hadamard(2^k) instead");
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin != 1)
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-  if (isscalar (k))
-    if (k < 1)
-      retval = 1;
-    else
-      tmp = sylvester_matrix (k-1);
-      retval = [tmp, tmp; tmp, -tmp];
-    endif
-  else
-    error ("sylvester_matrix: expecting scalar argument");
-  endif
-
-endfunction
-
-
-%!assert((sylvester_matrix (1) == [1, 1; 1, -1]
-%! && (sylvester_matrix (2)
-%! == [1, 1, 1, 1; 1, -1, 1, -1; 1, 1, -1, -1; 1, -1, -1, 1])));
-
-%!error sylvester_matrix ([1, 2; 3, 4]);
-
-%!error sylvester_matrix ();
-
-%!error sylvester_matrix (1, 2);
-