Octave was my first choice for fitting parameters to a model I'm using, but rather than return an error it would simply erase itself from memory. This allegedly wasn't an issue with some older versions of octave, but hey - *everybody *loves the good ol' math function package switcharoo!
On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 1:46:53 PM UTC-4, testertester wrote: > > I am on Ubuntu, and my copy of julia was installed with apt-get install > julia. > > I was trying the curve fitting tutorial found here ( > http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5181) but I kept getting the error > "curve_fit not defined". Yes, I have done "Pkg.add("Optim")" and > "Pkg.add("LsqFit")", that doesn't help. Apparently, nobody else on the > internet has ever had this problem. > <https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=%22curve_fit+not+defined%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8>I'm > > surprised. > > Also, it doesn't seem like I can find the version number of Julia that I'm > using. Following this ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25326890/how-to-find-version-number-of-julia-is-there-a-ver-command) > > just gives me the error "verbose not defined". Is every piece of > documentation about Julia from earlier than 6/2015 invalid now? The > responses I found here > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/djWGrU6z3Hc>are > pretty useless, as curve_fit doesn't even work by itself. >
