Diagonal v. sparse matrices [was Re: deprecated functions]

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:13 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On  4-Mar-2009, Jason Riedy wrote:
>
> | I suppose the shortest path to a fix is to revert spdiag.
>
> Maybe it would be best to leave spdiag deprecated and just translate
> the spdiag call to spdiags.  That will be a little more complicated
> that just calling "spdiags (varargin{:})", but I think it should be
> possible without too much effort.  Then the deprecated warning message
> can recommend using spdiags instead.
>

But why, by heaven? What's so wrong with diag(sparse(vector))?



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