Re: [OctDev] New releases of NaN- and TSA - toolbox

2012-02-20 Thread Dr. Alexander Klein
Am 20.02.2012 um 17:23 schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > It sounds to me like we have chosen a canonical NaN value, NA, so we > should be preserving it across operations? If that means that NaN + NA will always result in NA then it might pose a problem too, since - literally speaking - mapping

Re: [OctDev] Publications was Who uses Octave?

2012-02-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 02/20/2012 01:58 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote: > Hi all, > > What about collecting a non-official list of publications created > using Octave (data, plots, etc...)? > > http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Publications_using_Octave > I did use octave to create Figure 6 in Stephen Montgomery

[OctDev] Possible problem with oct2xls

2012-02-20 Thread Martin Hoeijmakers
Dear Philip, I was trying the new version of Octave 3.6.0 for Windows, when I met the following problem. I tried: ca{1,1} = "test"; xls = xlsopen('testXLS.xls', 1, 'POI'); xls = oct2xls(ca, xls, "werkblad"); xlsclose(xls); I got: POI (& OOXML)*; (* = active interface) error

Re: [OctDev] Possible problem with oct2xls

2012-02-20 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Hello Martin: Martin Hoeijmakers wrote: > Dear Philip, > > I was trying the new version of Octave 3.6.0 for Windows, when I met the > following problem. > > I tried: > > ca{1,1} = "test"; > xls = xlsopen('testXLS.xls', 1, 'POI'); > xls = oct2xls(ca, xls, "werkblad"); > xlsclose(xls); > > I got:

Re: [OctDev] Help me write the GSoC application

2012-02-20 Thread Nir Krakauer
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Re: [OctDev] Publications was Who uses Octave?

2012-02-20 Thread fotios
On 02/20/2012 09:58 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote: > Hi all, > > What about collecting a non-official list of publications created > using Octave (data, plots, etc...)? > > http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Publications_using_Octave > Then you can add this M. Berggren, F. Kasolis. Weak mater

[OctDev] Publications was Who uses Octave?

2012-02-20 Thread Juan Pablo Carbajal
Hi all, What about collecting a non-official list of publications created using Octave (data, plots, etc...)? http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Publications_using_Octave -- M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal - PhD Student University of Zürich http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/

Re: [OctDev] Help me write the GSoC application

2012-02-20 Thread Juan Pablo Carbajal
2012/2/18 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso : > Alright, thanks everyone. I think we have a healthy amount of > proposals for GSoC projects as well as people willing to mentor them: > >    http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_Project_Ideas > > Now we need to write our application: > >    http://octave

Re: [OctDev] New releases of NaN- and TSA - toolbox

2012-02-20 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 20 February 2012 10:44, Dr. Alexander Klein wrote: > Don't we have the special NA-NaNs to mark data as missing instead of > the usual NaNs? Yes, they are just another NaN with a special bit pattern (any bit pattern that has all of the exponent bits lit and a nonzero mantissa is a NaN). I think

Re: [OctDev] New releases of NaN- and TSA - toolbox

2012-02-20 Thread Dr . Alexander Klein
Am 20.02.2012 um 15:46 schrieb Nir Krakauer: > As a user of the NaN toolbox for data analysis and statistics > computations, I find that overloading the built-in functions with the > NaN-skipping functionality serves me well, compared to having to > remember to use nan- forms of the function names

Re: [OctDev] New releases of NaN- and TSA - toolbox

2012-02-20 Thread Nir Krakauer
As a user of the NaN toolbox for data analysis and statistics computations, I find that overloading the built-in functions with the NaN-skipping functionality serves me well, compared to having to remember to use nan- forms of the function names as in Matlab.On the other hand, I agree that the defa

Re: [OctDev] New releases of NaN- and TSA - toolbox

2012-02-20 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2012/2/20 Alois Schloegl : > For this reason, I'd actually recommend the NaN-toolbox to > beginners, because its more likely that that they get the handling > of NaNs right. Beginners are more likely to perform computations that result in NaNs, and silently ignoring those computations without any

Re: [OctDev] New releases of NaN- and TSA - toolbox

2012-02-20 Thread Alois Schloegl
On 02/19/2012 02:53 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > 2012/2/19 Alois Schlögl: >> The users of the NaN-toolbox can choose the NaN-propagating function >> sum() or the NaN-skipping function sumskipnan(). > > Oh, this is nice. I'm sorry, I thought you also shadowed the core sum > function. > > But