On 18-Aug-2008, David Bateman wrote:

| Luca Favatella wrote:
| > Hi.
| >
| > I have Octave 3.0.1 from Debian testing "Lenny" repository.
| >
| >
| > The ranks function doc says that it returns a _column_ vector, instead
| > the function returns a _row_ vector.
| >
| >
| >
| > HOW TO REPPRODUCE THIS BUG
| >
| > Step #1
| >
| > If I type:
| >   help ranks
| > I read:
| >   "If X is a vector, return the (column) vector of ranks of X adjusted
| > for ties."
| >
| > (it says _column_ vector)
| >
| >
| > Step #2
| >
| > If I type:
| >   "size (ranks (1:3))"
| > I get:
| >   ans =
| >      1   3
| >
| >   
| I suppose this happened when ranks was converted for use with 
| NDArrays... Though to me the new behavior makes more sense and I'd 
| propose fixing the documentation string instead with the attached patch. 
| This should be applied to both 3.1.51+ and 3.0.1+

I applied it to my archive.

Thanks,

jwe

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