Re: bug in scatter() in 3.6.2 ?

[Carnë Draug]

On 22 January 2013 12:10,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:57:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: Eric Chassande-Mottin <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: bug in scatter() in 3.6.2 ?
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> hi,
>
> I think I've found a bug in scatter()
>
> N=100; a=rand(1,N); b=rand(1,N); c=ones(1,N); scatter(a,b,20,c,"filled");
>
> gives no error while
>
> N=101; a=rand(1,N); b=rand(1,N); c=ones(1,N); scatter(a,b,20,c,"filled");
> error: invalid value for color property "markerfacecolor"
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/plot/private/__scatter__.m at line 274,
> column 11
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/plot/private/__scatter__.m at line 211,
> column 13
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/plot/scatter.m at line 71, column 11
>
> note that
>
> N=101; a=rand(1,N); b=rand(1,N); c=rand(1,N); scatter(a,b,20,c,"filled");
>
> works fine.
>
> version
> ans = 3.6.2
>
> I've tried to track the bug down by making a local copy of __scatter__.m and
> scatter.m
> but the local copies don't find the other private functions.
>
> eric

Both commands work fine for me, no error messages. Octave 3.6.2 in
Debian. Can you give more details of your set-up?

Carnë