Re: plot data from multiple arguments

[D. Stimits]

Thanks for everyone's replies. Suggestions related to using ".^" instead
of just "^" were the key. It now works great!

D. Stimits, address@hidden

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to plot a function that is similar to sin(). I can easily do
> this:
> x = (0.0:0.1:1.0)';
> data = [x, sin(x)];
> 
> ...and then plot via "data".
> 
> However, I have a function that takes 3 arguments, not 1. Two of the
> arguments will be held constant and only the first argument is being
> used with "x":
> function retval = TestMe( x, y, z )
>    printf( "\nx, y, z: %f, %d, %d\n", x, y, z );
>    retval = x + y;
> endfunction
> 
> (it'll always be called with x as a float between 0.0 and 1.0, y will
> always be 3, and z will always be 2)
> 
> Unfortunately, only the "x" argument is behaving properly. The "y" and
> "z" arguments should always be printed out as 3 and 2, but they are not.
> I don't seem to understand this, I thought that "[x, Function(x,3,2)]"
> would result in 10 rows of data (since x was assigned 10 values), and be
> two columns wide (since "x" takes one column, and "Function" returns
> another single value). The second and third arguments to Function should
> *ALWAYS* be 3 and 2, since those are explicitly stated, and variables
> are not used. But they are accurate only once. Then they change:
> octave:1> x = ( 0.0:0.1:1.0 )';
> octave:2> function retval = TestMe( x, y, z )
> >    printf( "\nx, y, z: %f, %d, %d\n", x, y, z );
> >    retval = x + y;
> > endfunction
> octave:3> data = [x, TestMe(x,3,2)];
> 
> x, y, z: 0.000000, 0, 0
> 
> x, y, z: 0.300000, 0, 0
> 
> x, y, z: 0.600000, 0, 0
> 
> x, y, z: 0.900000, 1, 3
> 
> x, y, z: 2.000000, octave:4>
> 
> What also looks strange is that the final printf() statement is never
> completely printed. The final printf never prints out anything for
> arguments 2 or 3, and fails to print the newline. The 2nd and 3rd
> arguments are never "3" and "2", I would expect them to always be 3 and
> 2. And since there are 10 "x" values, not 5, it appears that every other
> one is completely missing, other than the newline being printed. I
> verified that "x" consists of 10 values in increments of 0.1. Are these
> bugs? Is there another way to fill up "data" without manually looping
> and expicitly appending an answer to a matrix each loop?
> 
> Platform is Linux, Redhat 7.1. octave version is 2.1.33.
> 
> D. Stimits, address@hidden
> 
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