Octave packages

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Sun Nov 23 17:27:24 PST 2008


On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 05:23:02PM -0500, Robert Fong-tom said:
> I ported Octave successfully using MacPorts. I also ported some of the 
> packages (i.e. octave-io, octave-miscellaneous, octave-image, etc), 
> however I can't cal any of the functions from these packages. An example 
> of the error I get is as follows.
>
> octave:2> z=csvread("/Users/robert/Desktop/sell.csv");
> error: `csvread' undefined near line 2 column 3

Do you still have other octave installs?  If you do 'which octave' is it the
MacPorts one in /opt/local/bin/octave?  I installed octave-io and csvread()
appears to work just fine.

Bryan


>
> If I do "port installed" all the packages show up as installed. Does  
> anyone have any thoughts on what could be happening?
> Bob


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