[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34351] Feature Request : rand[nep] should accept a final "class" argument

[Rik]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34351>

                 Summary: Feature Request : rand[nep] should accept a final
"class" argument
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: rik5
            Submitted on: Tue 20 Sep 2011 10:39:39 PM PDT
                Category: Libraries
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

The functions for creating matrices, such as ones(), accept a final string
argument to set the class of the returned matrix to something other than the
default "double".  For example:


sing_ones = ones (3,2,"single");


It would be useful if the functions which generate random matrices (rand,
randn, rande, randp, randg) would follow the same syntax.  Matlab already does
this (http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/randn.html).  

This feature would have been handy during my rewrite of the statistical
distribution functions.  Instead I had to create the desired matrix and then
explicitly cast it to class "single".





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