octave.app (3.02) on Mac

[Fumihiro Chiba]

Hi, Anton

You may need {gnuplot and X11} or {gnuplot and aquaterm}.
Did you install them?

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Fumihiro CHIBA

On 2008/10/15, at 5:48, Anton van Oosten wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I just installed octave.app on  my PPC OS10.4 latest Mac, started up
> and ran my first command:
>
> plot(0:90,sin(pi/180*(0:90)))
>
> The plot remained empty, whereas the line works ok in matlab.
> What went wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Anton
>
> The command listing is:
> exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
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> octave-3.0.2:1> plot(0:90,sin(pi/180*(0:90)))usage: __pltopt1__
> (caller, opt)
> error: evaluating if command near line 63, column 3
> error: called from `__pltopt1__' in file `/Users/aoosten/ 
> __pltopt1__.m'
> error: evaluating for command near line 109, column 5
> error: evaluating if command near line 95, column 3
> error: called from `__pltopt__' in file `/Applications/Octave.app/
> Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.2/m/plot/__pltopt__.m'
> error: evaluating if command near line 55, column 2
> error: evaluating if command near line 54, column 7
> error: evaluating while command near line 41, column 5
> error: evaluating if command near line 28, column 3
> error: called from `__plt__' in file `/Applications/Octave.app/
> Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.0.2/m/plot/__plt__.m'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 187, column 9
> error: called from `plot' in file `/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/
> Resources/share/octave/3.0.2/m/plot/plot.m'
> octave-3.0.2:1>
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