Re: octave all_va_args

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, March 04, 2008, at 10:47AM, "Javier Ochoa" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>My name is Javier Ochoa, I am working at PROIMI in Argentina. I have installed 
>Octave 2.9.12 under  Linux in order to run the ica routines you modified from 
>the ones in MatLab written by Hurri et al.
>I cannot run the fpica.m function because the following error message 
>appeared:error: `all_va_args' undefined near line 100 column 13
>Could anybody tell me where is the problem, I could not explain this and I 
>will very appreciate your coments.
>Best regards, 
> 
>octave:13:> x=demosig
>octave:14>[E,D]=pcamat(x)
>octave:15> [nv,vm,dwm]=whitenv(x,E,D)
>octave:16>[A,W]=fpica(nv,vm,dwm,'defl',4,'pow3','off',1,1,1,'off',1e-6,500,100,'rand',1,'rand','signals',20,'on','classic')
>Used approach [ defl ].
>Warning: Setting 'sampleSize' to 1.
>Used nonlinearity [ pow3 ].
>Starting ICA calculation...
>IC 1 ...........computed ( 11 steps ) 
>IC 2 ......................computed ( 22 steps ) 
>IC 3 .....computed ( 5 steps ) 
>IC 4 ..computed ( 2 steps ) 
>Done.
>error: `all_va_args' undefined near line 100 column 13
>error: evaluating argument list element number 1
>error: evaluating assignment expression near line 100, column 6
>error: called from `icaplot' in file `/home/jochoa/fica/icaplot.m'
>error: evaluating switch command near line 871, column 5
>error: evaluating if command near line 870, column 3
>error: evaluating if command near line 591, column 1
> 
> 

I don't believe that all_va_args exists in Matlab, but did in Octave 2.1.x.

The Octave 2.9.x uses a different syntax. Take a look at the link below.

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Variable_002dlength-Argument-Lists.html

Ben