First big problem: cannot get Octave to recognize path to my .m file or to the data files
Below is a transcript of my failed attempts:
First:
Here's the equipment setup
Windows 7 Home Premium
Serivce Pack 1
Acer Aspire X1920
Pentium Dual core 3.2Ghz
4>00 GB ram
64-bit operating system
Windows confirms that a directory EEGLAB exists right at the root of the
C:\ drive, right along with the Octave directory, Windows, Program
Files....etc
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downloaded octave-3.4.2.tar.gz, and it seems to run
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So I load Octave and get this cursor prompt:
Octave 3.2.4exe:1>
EXAMPLE from GNU operating system HELP file:
— Built-in Function: addpath (dir1, ...)
— Built-in Function: addpath (dir1, ..., option)
so I tried it:
addpath (EEGLAB\eeglab10.2.2.0b\eeglab.m)
syntax error ^
what does this mean???
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So I tried to get just the first directory to work:
addpath (EEGLAB)
error:EEGLAB undefined near line 1 column 10
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
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Help file also showed example with quotation marks:
addpath ("EEGLAB")
warning addpath: EEGLAB: no such file or directory
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So let's see what path works with Octave as it came to me. Here's one:
path
C:\octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\libexec\octave\3.2.4\site\oct\i686-pc-mingw32
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So let's try that, with the C:\ up front:
addpath (C:\EEGLAB)
parse error:
syntax error
>>> addpath (C:\EEGLAB)
^
addpath (C:EEGLAB)
error: 'c' undefined near line 3 column 10
error: invalid base value in colon _expression_
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
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I`m running out of hair to pull out......
please help
Thanks
Don