"Missing" Functions?

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Brendan Donohue wrote:

> Octave Help,
>
> I have recently downloaded the latest version of Octave on to my  
> Macbook running OSX.  I have been exploring the software a bit and  
> while looking at several things in the online documentation I  
> noticed that several functions appear not have been included in the  
> installation.  For example when I type "help cubic," or "help  
> linear" it says that these are not found.  I am wondering if there  
> are a whole bunch of functions which I need to download separately  
> from the basic installation - any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brendan Donohue

There are many functions available by installing packages from Octave- 
Forge.

	http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html

However, I am not aware of any Octave or Matlab functions named  
"linear" or "cubic".

Are you looking for linear interpolation methods?

If so try "help interp1"

Ben