YAK ALERT: ABANDON SHI(T)P
I'll try installing it on Windows tomorrow. Every attempt at installing
0.3.11 on ubuntu failed no matter how many dependencies I installed. Also,
the link to download the .debs
<https://launchpad.net/~staticfloat/+archive/ubuntu/juliareleases> no
workey. Not at all surprised.
On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 7:30:19 PM UTC-4, testertester wrote:
>
> I'm using Lubuntu 15.04. VERSION gives me 0.3.2 and x86_64-linux-gnu.
> However, I'm getting this error after changing WalkingRandomly's demo:
>
> "ERROR: `curve_fit` has no method matching curve_fit(::Function,
> ::Array{Float64,1}, ::Array{Float64,1}, ::Array{Float64,1})"
>
> What it suggests is
> # 2 methods for generic function "curve_fit":
> curve_fit{T}(::Type{T},x,y) at
> /home/paul/.julia/v0.3/CurveFit/src/linfit.jl:72
> curve_fit{T}(::Type{T},x,y,args...) at
> /home/paul/.julia/v0.3/CurveFit/src/linfit.jl:73
>
> What is the difference between WR's example and what is suggested?
>
> I'm trying nonlinear_fit(), but the example in the readme is rather obtuse.
>
>
>
> On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 2:54:55 PM UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote:
>>
>> Call the function versioninfo(), or enter the constant VERSION
>>
>> Depending on what version of Ubuntu you're using, the Julia that you
>> installed from apt-get is probably quite out of date. It's better to use
>> the more recent tarball releases available from
>> www.julialang.org/downloads.
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 10:46:53 AM UTC-7, 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.
>>>
>>
