Re: [OctDev] request for developer

2009-07-23 Thread Søren Hauberg
ons, 22 07 2009 kl. 23:56 -0300, skrev Esteban Cervetto: In the last two months I have been writing source code to make an actuarial package for Octave. I have been finished the m files and the help files. Only left upload it formaly and your check. Could you guide me to reach it? It is

Re: [OctDev] Moving lauchli.m into miscellaneous package and killing special-matrix

2009-07-23 Thread Søren Hauberg
man, 20 07 2009 kl. 16:28 -0500, skrev Carlo de Falco: On 20 Jul 2009, at 15:00, Thomas Weber wrote: The reality is that most small packages are maintained by nobody. That's the reason why they stay small. I don't object reorganizing orphaned functions in a way that is more easy

Re: [OctDev] Moving lauchli.m into miscellaneous package and killing special-matrix

2009-07-23 Thread Søren Hauberg
man, 20 07 2009 kl. 08:02 -0500, skrev Carlo de Falco: I also believe this approach is more consistent with the packaging system phylosophy: In the near future (I should have finished doing this long time ago, sorry for my delay Søren ;) ) we expect to move to a release system where each

[OctDev] Shipping data files for testing

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Weber
Hi, the statistics package contains a few data files in a test/ directory. Shouldn't these files be part of the tarball, i.e. moved into inst/ ? Without them, tests for e.g. caseread.m fail. Thomas --

Re: [OctDev] Shipping data files for testing

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Weber
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:40:46PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: tor, 23 07 2009 kl. 12:32 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber: the statistics package contains a few data files in a test/ directory. Shouldn't these files be part of the tarball, i.e. moved into inst/ ? Without them, tests for e.g.

Re: [OctDev] nelder_mead_min and the use of lists in the optimization functions

2009-07-23 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Jaroslav Hajek wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Stickeljjstic...@vcn.com wrote: I just checked in a small bug fix to the nelder_mead_min function regarding some trouble with parsing the list or cell arguments. Someone more familiar with the function might want to check that I

Re: [OctDev] Fwd: Octave 3.2.0 backend on MS Vista

2009-07-23 Thread Carlo de Falco
On 23 Jul 2009, at 11:37, Richardson, Anthony wrote: Pressing 'u' unzooms, 'p' and 'n' go to the previous and next zoom level. More importantly, pressing 'h' while the plot window is active displays all options in the gnuplot terminal window. (Pressing 'h' does not display help when

Re: [OctDev] Fwd: Octave 3.2.0 backend on MS Vista

2009-07-23 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 23/7/09, bagvian bagv...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: bagvian bagv...@gmail.com Oggetto: Re: [OctDev] Fwd: Octave 3.2.0 backend on MS Vista A: tmacch...@yahoo.co.jp Cc: octave-...@lists.sourceforge..net Data: Giovedì 23 luglio 2009, 18:07 Dear Tatsuro, Many thanks for your

Re: [OctDev] Fwd: Octave 3.2.0 backend on MS Vista

2009-07-23 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 23/7/09, Carlo de Falco carlo.defa...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: Carlo de Falco carlo.defa...@gmail.com Oggetto: Re: [OctDev] Fwd: Octave 3.2.0 backend on MS Vista A: Richardson, Anthony a...@evansville.edu Cc: octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Data: Giovedì 23 luglio 2009, 19:03 On

Re: [OctDev] nelder_mead_min and the use of lists in the optimization functions

2009-07-23 Thread Jaroslav Hajek
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Jonathan Stickeljjstic...@vcn.com wrote: Jaroslav Hajek wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Stickeljjstic...@vcn.com wrote: I just checked in a small bug fix to the nelder_mead_min function regarding some trouble with parsing the list or cell

Re: [OctDev] Fwd: Octave 3.2.0 backend on MS Vista

2009-07-23 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
I forgot rely to octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net --- Tatsuro MATSUOKA tmacch...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Hello The version of gnuplot for octave/windows mingw is __gnuplot_version__ ans = 4.3.0-2008-11-21CVS.0octave-mingw32 The terminal is winows terminal but not x11 because gnuplot bundled

Re: [OctDev] optimization function strategy (was: nelder_mead_min and the use of lists in the optimization functions)

2009-07-23 Thread Jonathan Stickel
On 7/23/09 Jaroslav Hajek wrote: BTW, I find it confusing that optimization functions are split between Octave and the octave-forge package. At one point, I thought there was a plan to keep associated functions together, either all in Octave or in the appropriate octave-forge package. I

Re: [OctDev] optimization function strategy

2009-07-23 Thread Florent Angly
Hi, Oh, I never realized that fminbnd is a core function of Matlab and not in the core. I guess that's because you don't have to explicitely load toolboxes. Anyways, I know, because I had plans of working on it, that the fminbnd in Octave is much slower than the fminbnd in Matlab, because the