Re: Missing functions in the statistics package.

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 14.09.2015 18:49, Dag wrote:
> Oliver Heimlich wrote
> > Again, if you plan to make changes to the packages, it is much easier to
> > clone the source repository and export patches. There have been several
> > changes to the source code since the 1.2.4 release of the statistics
> > package.
>
> I cloned the source of statistics as follows: "pkg install -forge -local
> statistics".

The mercurial repositories for Octave forge packages are located here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/_list/hg

This is how you can get the sources and run the package w/o installation:

$ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/statistics octave-statistics
…
$ cd octave-statistics/
$ make run
octave:1> ttest ([1 1 1])
warning: division by zero
ans =  1

Now, lets assume you make a change to the sources…

$ echo "# Hello World" >> ./NEWS

Then you can use “hg diff” to create a patch. The workflows are 
described here:
http://wiki.octave.org/Mercurial