Re: Problems with functions

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: mat_hunt 
> To: help-octave> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/7/20, Wed 05:37
> Subject: Problems with functions
> 
> I have defined a function:
> 
> function  y=f(x)
> y_1=x(1)-x(2)+x(3)-2;
> y_2=2*x(1)-x(2)+x(3)-3;
> y_3=2*x(1)+x(2)-x(3)-1;
> y=[y_1 y_2 y_3];
> endfunction
> 
> and I have written a function to compute the Jacobian of that function:
> 
> function J=jacobian(func,x)
> % computes the Jacobian of a function
> n=length(x);
> fx=feval(func,x);
> eps=1.e-8; % could be made better
> xperturb=x;
> for i=1:n
> xperturb(i)=xperturb(i)+eps;
> J(:,i)=(feval(func,xperturb)-fx)/eps;
> xperturb(i)=x(i);
> endfor;
> endfunction
> 
> when I use the command:
> 
> jacobian(f,[1 1 1])
> 
> I get the error:
> 
> error: 'x' undefined near line 2 column 5
> error: called from:
> error:   /home/mat/Matlab programs/f.m at line 2, column 4
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> 
> What is going on? The code was working perfectly fine 10 minutes ago and now
> it's throwing up errors.
> 


This is not an answer but a comment.

You can calculate numerical jacobinan function "jacobs" in the optim package.

http://octave.sourceforge.net/optim/function/jacobs.html


Tatsuro