Guys,

Thanks for your efforts.

Can I make an observation.  I am a software engineer who is trying to
move 4-5 hardened matlab guys to use Octave.

We seem to run into simple issues like this where functions just do not work.

Is the issue that there is not a test suite for the Octave-Forge packages ?

Having simple issues like this makes the matlab guys very reluctant to
move to octave.
It would be better if there was a full test suite and items that
simply do not work are not released to sourceforge.

Just my thoughts.

Paul.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Søren Hauberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> fre, 10 10 2008 kl. 13:36 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
>> Am Freitag, den 10.10.2008, 12:31 +0200 schrieb Søren Hauberg:
>> > fre, 10 10 2008 kl. 12:20 +0200, skrev Søren Hauberg:
>> > > > Mhm, my not totally new version of Matlab doesn't match this
>> > > > description. Can someone with a current version please check what
>> > > >
>> > > >         mad(1,2,3)
>> > > > gives?
>> > >
>> > > It gives 0. However, it seems matlab actually support three input
>> > > arguments (from the matlab mad help text):
>> > >
>> > > MAD(X,FLAG,DIM) takes the MAD along dimension DIM of X.
>> > >
>> > > It doesn't say what FLAG does, so I'm not sure how to treat it. It's
>> > > worth mentioning that
>> > >
>> > >   mad (1, 2, 3, 4)
>> > >
>> > > gives an error.
>> >
>> > Okay, it seems I was just not reading careful enough. If FLAG is zero
>> > the absolute mean deviation is computed, whereas the absolute median
>> > deviation is computed if it is one. I think the uploaded version does
>> > this, but I'd appreciate if anybody would test it.
>>
>> I think that Matlab's implementation deviates from its documentation:
>>
>> flag = 0 => mean deviation
>> flag != 0 => median deviation
>>
>> Should we allow that, too?
>
> Sure, why not? I guess a few people depend on this. I've made such a
> change.
>
> Søren
>
>
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