Re: Legend help

[Søren Hauberg]

legend is currently not in octave (I think it depends on programs like 
awk which might be a problem), so you should download it from 
octave-forge cvs:
http://octave.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/octave/octave-forge/main/plot/inst/legend.m?revision=1.1

Søren

Ron Crummett skrev:
> That sounds like a good idea.  But is legend.m in the Octave 
> distribution?  I downloaded 2.9.9 and unpacked it but didn't see a 
> legend function.  I did find one in the Octave-forge release but I am 
> using the most recent version of that, and have this problem.
>
> If there are other methods I'm willing to try them, but may need some 
> pointers on setting things up.
>
> -Ron
>
>
> Joe Koski wrote:
> > on 11/6/06 9:40 PM, Ron Crummett at address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >   
> > > Okay, I feel really silly for asking this, but I cannot get the legend
> > > command to work in Octave 2.9.6 - I try typing something like
> > >
> > > legend('string1');
> > >
> > > and get the error messages
> > >
> > > error: split: both s and t must be strings
> > > error: evaluating if command near line 53, column 5
> > > error: evaluating if command near line 48, column 3
> > > error: called from `split' in file
> > > `/usr/share/octave/2.9.6/m/strings/split.m'
> > > error: called from `legend' in file
> > > `/usr/share/octave/2.9.6/site/m/octave-forge//plot/legend.m'
> > >
> > > I have no idea why I would be getting these messages.  Anyone have some
> > > ideas?  Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > -Ron
> > >     
> > Ron,
> >
> > I had the same problem with legend.m in 2.9.6, but the problem has been
> > fixed in more recent versions. You need to replace legend.m with a more
> > recent version, either from CVS or from a newer distribution.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
> >   
>
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