Re: Posting guide

[Rubén Roa-Ureta]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 2008/7/28 Rubén Roa-Ureta <address@hidden>:
>   
> > Being new to the list, I was trying to find a posting guide, like there
> > is for example for R, to no avail (maybe I didn't try hard). So, is
> > there a posting guide to ask questions about Octave to the experts?
> >     
>
> I don't think we have one, but I'm not sure we need one either. Tell
> us what you want to happen, what is actually happening, show us any
> error messages you get, and show us the code you're typing. Oh, and be
> nice. That seems like common sense to me, but lawyers have shown that
> common sense often needs to be codified.
>
> So, ask away.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
>   
As it happened, I found the solution myself. I was running code under 
Octave 3.0.1 that I had written under Octave 2.5, and it included a 
calculation with the Gamma distribution. The results were different in 
the two versions. After a short experimentation I noticed that the Gamma 
parameterization was changed (probably for compatibility with Matlab) so 
I changed my code accordingly and everything run well.
I have come back to Octave after a long time doing everything with R 
(I'm a statistician), but I like Octave very much, I will read the 
posts, and I will ask politely for help when I need it.
Thanks to Dmitri for the link to how to ask question the smart way.
Rubén