[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42122] statistics package: kmeans in produces error when an option is set but not emptyaction

[Anton]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #42122 (project octave):

Having had a closer look at the kmeans function I realised that the problem
actually runs deeper than I thought. In fact the kmeans function does not have
any other options implemented than emptyaction singleton. You cannot even give
"emptyaction","error" as an explicit option... "error" is the default, but
fails when given as a parameter explicitly. The code superficially gives the
impression that you might be able to give a "start" parameter, but it seems
the default "sample" is hardcoded and the parameter is actually ignored. Non
of the other parameters (that the MatLab equivalent recognises) is implemented
either and I could also not find any documentation on the available parameters
in Octave statistics.

I appreciate that it is all free software and provided without any promise to
do what one might expect, but some sort of warning in the documentation that
parameters are not recognised/which parameters work would be really nice.

Kind regards,
Anton

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