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Re: Not able to install io package
From: |
Markus Bergholz |
Subject: |
Re: Not able to install io package |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Jun 2014 08:17:24 +0200 |
Am 22.06.2014 06:25 schrieb "jerome1212" <address@hidden>:
>
> Dear all, I am not able to get the io package installed properly. I am using
> the Octave 3.8 version and downloaded the io package at the following site:
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/io/index.html. The package name is
> io-2.2.2.tar.gz . Within the GUI I navigate to the folder of this
> downloaded file and type the following into the command line:
>
> >> pkg install -forge io
>
> I don't get an error and see the following:
>
>
> For information about changes from previous versions of the io package, run
> 'news io
> '.
>
I see no error here.
Have you typed ver in octave? Is io package listed? Type pkg load io
You have to load a package after it's installed.
Furthermore use a) pkg install -forge packagename or b) pkg install package-file.tar.gz
> When I try to use a function from that package (e.g. xlsread) I get the
> following error:
>
> >> help xlsread
> error: help: Functions for spreadsheet style I/O (.xls .xlsx .sxc .ods .dbf
> .wk1
> etc.) are provided in the io package. See `http://octave.sf.net/io/'.
>
> Please read `http://www.octave.org/missing.html' to learn how you can
> contribute missing functionality.
>
> Any ideas what is going wrong here and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerome.
>
>
>
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