Re: Release 4.4.0 and statistics package

[Julien Bect]

Le 08/01/2018 à 09:39, Daniel J Sebald a écrit :
> On 01/08/2018 01:55 AM, Julien Bect wrote:
> > Le 08/01/2018 à 02:24, Rik a écrit :
> > > Many thanks for that work.  I removed most of the functions from the 
> > > core
> > > in this cset 
> > > (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/fdc9ce839afd).
> > > Most of the work was actually re-writing the Statistics chapter of the
> > > manual to make sense again.
> >
> > What about functions such as mean, median, mode, std, var ?
> >
> > In Matlab they belong to "Matlab core", not to the Statistic& & ML 
> > toolbox:
> >
> > https://fr.mathworks.com/help/matlab/data_analysis/descriptive-statistics.html, 
> >
> >
> > which means that now, some programs that run on Matlab without any 
> > dependency will not run on Octave unless the statistics package is 
> > loaded...
> >
> > Just my two cents, sorry if this has been discussed before...
>
> I also didn't quite understand that statistics function discussion.  
> It sounded like any stats-related functions would be moved to the 
> statistics package.  But I've pulled the latest code and it looks like 
> the routines such as var.m, corr.m, etc. have simply been moved to 
> ./scripts/statistics/ directory.  I think the title of the changeset 
> is a bit misleading in that it suggests all routines were removed when 
> it was only the non-common ones that were removed; "(re)move" might 
> have suggested it wasn't that simple.

Ok, my bad.  I misunderstood Rik's commit message.

Yes, these functions were moved from ./scripts/statistics/base to 
./scripts/statistics, so they're still in Octave cor, everythng is fine.

Sorry for the noise.