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The value calculated by Octave's corrcoef and cor are the
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Use MathWorks naming convention for this functionality.
* corr.m: New file with functionality of corrcoef.m
* cov.m, kendall.m, spearman.m, cor_test.m: Adjust scripts to call corr()
* statistics/base/module.mk, deprecated/module.mk: Inform Automake about
deprecated functions
* NEWS: Inform users about deprecation
* stats.txi: Add corr() to documentation.
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| 73 be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major | |
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| 91 by hand. Instead, there is a single ChangeLog file generated from | |
| 92 the Mercurial version control commit messages. Older ChangeLog | |
| 93 information can be found in the etc/OLD-ChangeLogs directory in the | |
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| 108 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the | |
| 109 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better | |
| 110 performance. | |
| 9352 | 111 |
| 112 ** Real, integer and logical matrices, when used in indexing, will now | |
| 113 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when | |
| 114 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for | |
| 10118 | 115 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it |
| 116 is no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays | |
| 117 using find for performance reasons. | |
| 9888 | 118 |
| 10118 | 119 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as |
| 120 indices. Octave will keep the index as a logical mask unless the | |
| 121 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized | |
| 122 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted | |
| 123 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and | |
| 124 computing time. | |
| 9480 | 125 |
| 10118 | 126 ** The `sub2ind' and `ind2sub' functions were reimplemented as compiled |
| 127 functions for better performance. These functions are now faster, | |
| 128 can deliver more economized results for ranges, and can reuse the | |
| 129 index cache mechanism described in previous paragraph. | |
| 130 | |
| 131 ** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (`plus', | |
| 132 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept | |
| 133 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing | |
| 134 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types): | |
| 9408 | 135 |
| 9449 | 136 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:}); |
| 137 | |
| 10118 | 138 ** An FTP object type based on libcurl has been implemented. These |
| 139 objects allow ftp connections, downloads and uploads to be | |
| 140 managed. For example, | |
| 9880 | 141 |
| 10118 | 142 fp = ftp ("ftp.octave.org); |
| 143 cd (fp, "gnu/octave"); | |
| 144 mget (fp, "octave-3.2.3.tar.bz2"); | |
| 145 close (fp); | |
| 9880 | 146 |
| 10118 | 147 ** The default behavior of `assert (observed, expected)' has been |
| 148 relaxed to employ less strict checking that does not require the | |
| 149 internals of the values to match. This avoids previously valid | |
| 150 tests from breaking due to new internal classes introduced in future | |
| 151 Octave versions. | |
| 9449 | 152 |
| 153 For instance, all of these assertions were true in Octave 3.0.x | |
| 154 but false in 3.2.x due to new optimizations and improvements: | |
| 155 | |
| 156 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5)) | |
| 157 assert (zeros (0, 0), []) | |
| 158 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5))) | |
| 9462 | 159 |
| 10118 | 160 ** The behavior of library functions `ismatrix', `issquare', and |
| 161 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency. | |
| 9873 | 162 |
| 10292 | 163 * The `ismatrix' function now returns true for all numeric, |
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| 10292 | 165 returned false if the first or second dimension was zero. |
| 166 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false, | |
| 167 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true. | |
| 9873 | 168 |
| 10118 | 169 * The `issquare' function now returns a logical scalar, and is |
| 170 equivalent to the expression | |
| 171 | |
| 172 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x) | |
| 173 | |
| 174 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])' | |
| 175 now yields true. | |
| 9873 | 176 |
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| 10118 | 179 logical scalar is returned rather than the dimension, so |
| 180 `issymmetric ([])' is now true. | |
| 9873 | 181 |
| 10118 | 182 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a |
| 183 function is overloaded, the handle determines at the time of its | |
| 184 reference which function to call. A non-overloaded version does not | |
| 185 need to exist. | |
| 9873 | 186 |
| 10118 | 187 ** Overloading functions for built-in classes (double, int8, cell, |
| 188 etc.) is now compatible with Matlab. | |
| 9408 | 189 |
| 10323 | 190 ** Function handles can now be compared with the == and != operators, |
| 191 as well as the `isequal' function. | |
| 192 | |
| 10118 | 193 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat', |
| 194 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional | |
| 195 arrays. | |
| 10117 | 196 |
| 9547 | 197 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more |
| 10118 | 198 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a |
| 199 scalar, then the statement | |
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| 10118 | 201 M += S; |
| 9547 | 202 |
| 10118 | 203 will operate on M's data in-place if it is not shared by another |
| 204 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency. | |
| 9547 | 205 |
| 9558 | 206 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely: |
| 9547 | 207 |
| 208 matrix += matrix | |
| 209 matrix -= matrix | |
| 9558 | 210 matrix .*= matrix |
| 211 matrix ./= matrix | |
| 212 | |
| 9547 | 213 matrix += scalar |
| 214 matrix -= scalar | |
| 215 matrix *= scalar | |
| 216 matrix /= scalar | |
| 9558 | 217 |
| 9552 | 218 logical matrix |= logical matrix |
| 219 logical matrix &= logical matrix | |
| 9547 | 220 |
| 10118 | 221 where matrix and scalar belong to the same class. The left-hand |
| 222 side must be a simple variable reference. | |
| 9888 | 223 |
| 10118 | 224 Moreover, when unary operators occur in expressions, Octave will |
| 225 also try to do the operation in-place if it's argument is a | |
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| 9589 | 227 |
| 10118 | 228 ** The effect of comparison operators (<, >, <=, and >=) applied to |
| 229 complex numbers has changed to be consistent with the strict | |
| 230 ordering defined by the `max', `min', and `sort' functions. More | |
| 231 specifically, complex numbers are compared by lexicographical | |
| 232 comparison of the pairs `[abs(z), arg(z)]'. Previously, only real | |
| 233 parts were compared; this can be trivially achieved by wrapping the | |
| 234 operands in real(). | |
| 9547 | 235 |
| 10118 | 236 ** The automatic simplification of complex computation results has |
| 237 changed. Octave will now simplify any complex number with a zero | |
| 238 imaginary part or any complex matrix with all elements having zero | |
| 239 imaginary part to a real value. Previously, this was done only for | |
| 240 positive zeros. Note that the behavior of the complex function is | |
| 241 unchanged and it still produces a complex value even if the | |
| 242 imaginary part is zero. | |
| 9826 | 243 |
| 10118 | 244 ** As a side effect of code refactoring in liboctave, the binary |
| 245 logical operations are now more easily amenable to compiler | |
| 246 optimizations and are thus significantly faster. | |
| 9595 | 247 |
| 10118 | 248 ** Octave now allows user-defined `subsasgn' methods to optimize out |
| 249 redundant copies. For more information, see the manual. | |
| 9595 | 250 |
| 10453 | 251 ** More efficient matrix division handling. Octave is now able to |
| 10118 | 252 handle the expressions |
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| 10118 | 258 (M is a matrix and V is a vector) more efficiently in certain cases. |
| 259 In particular, if M is triangular, all three expressions will be | |
| 260 handled by a single call to xTRTRS (from LAPACK), with appropriate | |
| 10453 | 261 flags. Previously, all three expressions required a physical |
| 10118 | 262 transpose of M. |
| 9664 | 263 |
| 10118 | 264 ** More efficient handling of certain mixed real-complex matrix |
| 265 operations. For instance, if RM is a real matrix and CM a complex | |
| 266 matrix, | |
| 9664 | 267 |
| 10118 | 268 RM * CM |
| 9664 | 269 |
| 270 can now be evaluated either as | |
| 271 | |
| 272 complex (RM * real (CM), RM * imag (CM)) | |
| 273 | |
| 274 or as | |
| 275 | |
| 276 complex (RM) * CM, | |
| 277 | |
| 10453 | 278 depending on the dimensions. The first form requires more |
| 279 temporaries and copying, but halves the FLOP count, which normally | |
| 280 brings better performance if RM has enough rows. Previously, the | |
| 281 second form was always used. | |
| 9664 | 282 |
| 11111 | 283 Matrix division is similarly affected. |
| 9664 | 284 |
| 10118 | 285 ** More efficient handling of triangular matrix factors returned from |
| 286 factorizations. The functions for computing QR, LU and Cholesky | |
| 287 factorizations will now automatically return the triangular matrix | |
| 288 factors with proper internal matrix_type set, so that it won't need | |
| 289 to be computed when the matrix is used for division. | |
| 9717 | 290 |
| 10118 | 291 ** The built-in `sum' function now handles the non-native summation |
| 292 (i.e., double precision sum of single or integer inputs) more | |
| 293 efficiently, avoiding a temporary conversion of the whole input | |
| 294 array to doubles. Further, `sum' can now accept an extra option | |
| 295 argument, using a compensated summation algorithm rather than a | |
| 296 straightforward sum, which significantly improves precision if lots | |
| 297 of cancellation occurs in the summation. | |
| 9717 | 298 |
| 10118 | 299 ** The built-in `bsxfun' function now uses optimized code for certain |
| 300 cases where built-in operator handles are passed in. Namely, the | |
| 301 optimizations concern the operators `plus', `minus', `times', | |
| 302 `ldivide', `rdivide', `power', `and', `or' (for logical arrays), | |
| 303 the relational operators `eq', `ne', `lt', `le', `gt', `ge', and the | |
| 304 functions `min' and `max'. Optimizations only apply when both | |
| 305 operands are of the same built-in class. Mixed real/complex and | |
| 306 single/double operations will first convert both operands to a | |
| 307 common type. | |
| 9745 | 308 |
| 10118 | 309 ** The `strfind' and `strrep' functions now have compiled |
| 310 implementations, facilitating significantly more efficient searching | |
| 311 and replacing in strings, especially with longer patterns. The code | |
| 312 of `strcat' has been vectorized and is now much more efficient when | |
| 313 many strings are concatenated. The `strcmpi' and `strncmpi' | |
| 314 functions are now built-in functions, providing better performance. | |
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| 11111 | 322 tilde (~) is now supported. Ignored output arguments may be |
| 323 detected from a function using the built-in function `isargout'. | |
| 324 For more details, consult the manual. | |
| 10886 | 325 |
| 10453 | 326 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has |
| 327 been removed. | |
| 10276 | 328 |
| 10453 | 329 ** The accumarray function has been optimized and is now significantly |
| 330 faster in certain important cases. | |
| 10054 | 331 |
| 10292 | 332 ** The behavior of isreal and isnumeric functions was changed to be more |
| 333 Matlab-compatible. | |
| 334 | |
| 10406 | 335 ** The integer math & conversion warnings (Octave:int-convert-nan, |
| 336 Octave:int-convert-non-int-val, Octave:int-convert-overflow, | |
| 11111 | 337 Octave:int-math-overflow) have been removed. |
| 10406 | 338 |
| 10453 | 339 ** rem and mod are now built-in functions. They also handle integer |
| 340 types efficiently using integer arithmetic. | |
| 10437 | 341 |
| 10536 | 342 ** Sparse indexing and indexed assignment has been mostly rewritten. |
| 343 Since Octave uses compressed column storage for sparse matrices, | |
| 344 major attention is devoted to operations manipulating whole columns. | |
| 345 Such operations are now significantly faster, as well as some other | |
| 346 important cases. | |
| 347 | |
| 348 Further, it is now possible to pre-allocate a sparse matrix and | |
| 349 subsequently fill it by assignments, provided they meet certain | |
| 350 conditions. For more information, consult the `spalloc' function, | |
| 351 which is no longer a mere dummy. Consequently, nzmax and nnz are no | |
| 11111 | 352 longer always equal in Octave. Octave may also produce a matrix |
| 353 with nnz < nzmax as a result of other operations, so you should | |
| 354 consistently use nnz unless you really want to use nzmax (i.e. the | |
| 355 space allocated for nonzero elements). | |
| 10536 | 356 |
| 357 Sparse concatenation is also affected, and concatenating sparse | |
| 358 matrices, especially larger collections, is now significantly more | |
| 11111 | 359 efficient. This applies to both the [] operator and the |
| 10536 | 360 cat/vertcat/horzcat functions. |
| 361 | |
| 11111 | 362 ** It is now possible to optionally employ the xGESDD LAPACK drivers |
| 363 for computing the singular value decomposition using svd(), instead | |
| 364 of the default xGESVD, using the configuration pseudo-variable | |
| 365 svd_driver. The xGESDD driver can be up to 6x times faster when | |
| 366 singular vectors are requested, but is reported to be somewhat less | |
| 10639 | 367 robust on highly ill-conditioned matrices. |
| 368 | |
| 369 ** Configuration pseudo-variables, such as page_screen_output or | |
| 370 confirm_recursive_rmdir (or the above mentioned svd_driver), now | |
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| 375 confirm_recursive_rmdir (false, "local"); | |
| 376 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s"); | |
| 377 ... | |
| 378 endfunction | |
| 379 | |
| 380 Upon return, confirm_recursive_rmdir will be restored to the value | |
| 381 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent | |
| 382 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions | |
| 383 it calls. | |
| 384 | |
| 11111 | 385 ** pkg now accepts a -forge option for downloading and installing |
| 386 packages from Octave Forge automatically. For example, | |
| 10774 | 387 |
| 388 pkg install -forge general | |
| 389 | |
| 11111 | 390 will automatically download the latest release of the general |
| 391 package and attempt to install it. No automatic resolving of | |
| 392 dependencies is provided. Further, | |
| 10639 | 393 |
| 10774 | 394 pkg list -forge |
| 395 | |
| 396 can be used to list all available packages. | |
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| 12424 | 460 ** For compatibility with Matlab, mu2lin (x) is now equivalent to |
| 461 mu2lin (x, 0). | |
| 462 | |
| 463 ** The new function `history_control' may be used to control the way | |
| 464 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using | |
| 465 readline for command-line editing. For example | |
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| 469 tells Octave to avoid adding duplicate lines to the history list. | |
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| 587 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the | |
| 588 high level graphics handle code. | |
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| 8885 | 590 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed. |
| 591 | |
| 592 These functions are now available as separate packages from | |
| 593 | |
| 594 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html | |
| 595 | |
| 596 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see | |
| 597 the pkg function). | |
| 598 | |
| 599 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed. | |
| 600 | |
| 601 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have | |
| 602 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you | |
| 603 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix. | |
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| 606 spchol spdet splchol spqr | |
| 607 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum | |
| 608 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk | |
| 609 spcumprod spinv spmin | |
| 610 | |
| 611 ** Improvements to the debugger. | |
| 612 | |
| 613 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping | |
| 614 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping | |
| 615 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time | |
| 616 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with | |
| 617 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available | |
| 618 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function | |
| 619 is available to exit the debugging mode. | |
| 620 | |
| 621 ** Improved traceback error messages. | |
| 622 | |
| 623 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to | |
| 624 understand. They now display information about the function call | |
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| 632 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in | |
| 633 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific | |
| 634 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the | |
| 635 generic versions of these functions. | |
| 636 | |
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| 640 | |
| 641 See the Octave manual for more details. | |
| 7038 | 642 |
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| 644 | |
| 645 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first | |
| 646 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a | |
| 647 command-style function calls are | |
| 648 | |
| 649 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement, | |
| 650 followed by a space. | |
| 651 | |
| 652 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '(' | |
| 653 | |
| 654 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary | |
| 655 operator. | |
| 656 | |
| 657 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses | |
| 658 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in | |
| 659 .m files without having to mark them as commands. | |
| 660 | |
| 661 Note that previous versions of Octave allowed expressions like | |
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| 664 | |
| 665 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In | |
| 666 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable, | |
| 667 you must use the normal function call syntax: | |
| 668 | |
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| 670 | |
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| 8747 | 673 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and |
| 674 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This | |
| 675 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment | |
| 676 each line. For example, | |
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| 680 #{ | |
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| 8737 | 700 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". |
| 2452 | 701 |
| 8737 | 702 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and |
| 703 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged, | |
| 704 significantly improving performance for these kinds of | |
| 705 operations. | |
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| 8737 | 707 ** Single Precision data type. |
| 2452 | 708 |
| 8737 | 709 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single |
| 710 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or | |
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| 8737 | 713 single (1) |
| 714 ones (2, 2, "single") | |
| 715 zeros (2, 2, "single") | |
| 716 eye (2, 2, "single") | |
| 717 Inf (2, 2, "single") | |
| 718 NaN (2, 2, "single") | |
| 719 NA (2, 2, "single") | |
| 7279 | 720 |
| 8737 | 721 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with |
| 722 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions | |
| 723 return single precision types. | |
| 724 | |
| 725 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal | |
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| 7279 | 729 |
| 8737 | 730 ** Improved array indexing. |
| 731 | |
| 732 The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been | |
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| 8737 | 734 |
| 8755 | 735 ** Improved memory management. |
| 736 | |
| 737 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously | |
| 738 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or | |
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| 8755 | 740 both time and memory consumption. |
| 9128 | 741 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector |
| 742 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from | |
| 743 the end of the vector. | |
| 8755 | 744 |
| 8738 | 745 ** Improved performance for reduction operations. |
| 746 | |
| 8755 | 747 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all, |
| 748 max and min functions has been significantly improved. | |
| 8738 | 749 |
| 9006 | 750 ** Sorting and searching. |
| 751 | |
| 752 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting | |
| 10453 | 753 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted |
| 754 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more | |
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| 10453 | 756 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search, |
| 757 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with | |
| 758 cell arrays of strings. | |
| 9006 | 759 |
| 760 ** Range arithmetics | |
| 761 | |
| 10453 | 762 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the |
| 763 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar, | |
| 764 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero | |
| 765 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in | |
| 766 function `ones'. | |
| 9006 | 767 |
| 768 ** Various performance improvements. | |
| 769 | |
| 10453 | 770 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions |
| 771 was improved, including: | |
| 9006 | 772 |
| 773 * logical operations | |
| 774 * comparison operators | |
| 775 * element-wise power | |
| 776 * accumarray | |
| 777 * cellfun | |
| 778 * isnan | |
| 779 * isinf | |
| 780 * isfinite | |
| 781 * nchoosek | |
| 782 * repmat | |
| 783 * strcmp | |
| 784 | |
| 8737 | 785 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic. |
| 786 | |
| 787 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully | |
| 788 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types. | |
| 789 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been | |
| 790 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave | |
| 791 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the | |
| 792 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then | |
| 793 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if | |
| 794 necessary. | |
| 795 | |
| 8885 | 796 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices. |
| 797 | |
| 798 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as | |
| 799 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than | |
| 800 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct | |
| 801 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a | |
| 802 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements. | |
| 803 | |
| 804 ** Improvements to fsolve. | |
| 805 | |
| 806 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see | |
| 807 also the optimset function). The INFO values returned from fsolve | |
| 808 have changed to be compatible with Matlab's fsolve function. | |
| 809 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems, | |
| 810 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse | |
| 811 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision | |
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| 8885 | 813 |
| 8737 | 814 ** Improvements to the norm function. |
| 815 | |
| 816 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a | |
| 817 matrix in a single call, as well as general matrix p-norms. | |
| 818 | |
| 819 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values. | |
| 820 | |
| 821 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These | |
| 822 functions require the ARPACK library (now distributed under a | |
| 823 GPL-compatible license). | |
| 824 | |
| 825 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions. | |
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| 8737 | 827 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift |
| 828 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate | |
| 829 | |
| 830 ** New quadrature functions. | |
| 831 | |
| 832 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad | |
| 833 | |
| 8885 | 834 ** New functions for reading and writing images. |
| 835 | |
| 836 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave. | |
| 837 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new | |
| 838 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size, | |
| 839 type, colors, etc.) | |
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| 8737 | 845 ** Other miscellaneous new functions. |
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848 bicgstab idivide realpow |
| 9006 | 849 cellslices info realsqrt |
| 850 cgs interp1q rectint | |
| 851 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate | |
| 852 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath | |
| 853 convn isstrprop roundb | |
| 854 cummin log1p rundemos | |
| 855 cummax lsqnonneg runlength | |
| 856 datetick matlabroot saveobj | |
| 857 display namelengthmax spaugment | |
| 858 expm1 nargoutchk strchr | |
| 859 filemarker pathdef strvcat | |
| 860 fstat perl subspace | |
| 861 full prctile symvar | |
| 862 fzero quantile treelayout | |
| 863 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring | |
| 864 histc | |
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| 8885 | 866 ** Changes to strcat. |
| 867 | |
| 868 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat | |
| 869 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating | |
| 870 character strings. For example | |
| 871 | |
| 872 strcat ('foo ', 'bar') | |
| 873 ==> 'foobar' | |
| 874 | |
| 875 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of | |
| 876 Octave's strcat. | |
| 877 | |
| 878 ** Improvements to the help functions. | |
| 879 | |
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| 8885 | 881 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been |
| 882 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that | |
| 883 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified | |
| 884 to generate cache files for external packages when they are | |
| 885 installed. | |
| 886 | |
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893 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf |
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894 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd |
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895 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf |
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896 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv |
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897 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf |
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898 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd |
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899 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg |
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901 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains |
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902 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements |
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903 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf |
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904 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv |
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907 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf |
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908 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv |
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911 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf |
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912 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv |
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913 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf |
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914 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd |
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915 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf |
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