Package: octave
Version: 4.4.1-2+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
Octave now has a very helpful feature which points the user to
functions available in packages:
octave:1> help random
error: help: the 'random' function belongs to the statistics package
from Octave
Forge which you have installed but not loaded. To load the package, run
'pkg load statistics' from the Octave prompt.
However, the feature overlooks some functions. These are also
provided in the statistics package:
octave:1> help chi2inv
error: help: 'chi2inv' not found
octave:1> help logit
error: help: 'logit' not found
octave:1> help regression
error: help: 'regression' not found
The problem appears to be that the overlooked functions are in
subdirectories of the package.
The message is printed by __unimplemented__.m, in the directory
/usr/share/octave/4.4.1/m/help, which has hard-coded lists of the
functions in each package. I see nothing in the source package that
generates those lists, so I assume one of the upstream maintainers has
code for that.
Some directories should still be omitted (e.g., self-testing
functions). I suggest functions in these directories be added to the
lists in __unimplemented__.m:
bsltl/mfiles
geometry/geom2d
geometry/geom3d
geometry/graphs
geometry/io
geometry/meshes3d
geometry/polygons2d
geometry/polynomialCurves2d
geometry/shape2d
geometry/utils
ltfat/auditory
ltfat/blockproc
ltfat/comp
ltfat/demos
ltfat/deprecated
ltfat/filterbank
ltfat/fourier
ltfat/frames
ltfat/gabor
ltfat/mulaclab
ltfat/nonstatgab
ltfat/operators
ltfat/quadratic
ltfat/signals
ltfat/sigproc
ltfat/thirdparty
ltfat/wavelets
statistics/base
statistics/distributions
statistics/models
- Jim Van Zandt
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Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii libamd2 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libarpack2 3.6.3-1
ii libasound2 1.1.7-1
ii libatlas3-base [liblapack.so.3] 3.10.3-7+b1
ii libblas3 [libblas.so.3] 3.8.0-1+b1
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-9
ii libc62.27-8
ii libcamd2 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libccolamd2 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libcholmod3 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libcolamd2 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libcxsparse3 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libfftw3-double3 3.3.8-2
ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.8-2
ii libfltk-gl1.31.3.4-7
ii libfltk1.3 1.3.4-7
ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3
ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-9
ii libglpk404.65-2
ii libgomp1 8.2.0-9
ii libklu1 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.8.0-1+b1
ii liboctave6 4.4.1-2+b1
ii libportaudio219.6.0-1
ii libqhull72015.2-4
ii libqrupdate1 1.1.2-3
ii libqscintilla2-qt5-132.10.4+dfsg-1+b1
ii libqt5core5a 5.11.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt5gui5 5.11.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt5help5 5.11.2-5
ii libqt5network5 5.11.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt5opengl55.11.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt5printsupport5 5.11.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt5sql5 5.11.2+dfsg-7
ii libqt5widgets5 5.11.2+dfsg-7
ii libsndfile1 1.0.28-4
ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-9
ii libsuitesparseconfig51:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libumfpack5 1:5.3.0+dfsg-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii octave-common4.4.1-2
ii texinfo 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii default-jre-headless 2:1.11-70
ii epstool3.09-1
ii gnuplot-x11 [gnuplot-nox] 5.2.5+dfsg1-1
ii libatlas3-base 3.10.3-7+b1
ii octave-doc 4.4.1-2
ii pstoedit 3.73-1+b1
Versions of packages octave suggests:
pn liboctave-dev
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