Re: private function not found

[Andreas Stahel]

On 07/20/2016 06:46 PM, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:47:25PM +0000, Andreas Stahel wrote:
>> Dear user
>>
>> I am puzzled by a problem with the optim package. the reply of Octave to
>>
>> pkg load optim
>> demo lsqcurvefit
>>
>> is 
>> ....
>> lsqcurvefit example 1: failed
>> '__nonlin_residmin__' undefined near line 83 column 20
>>
>> It seems that all functions in ~/octave/forge/optim-1.5.5/private
>> can not be found. This is on an Ubuntu 14.04 system with Octave 4.03.
>> On a sibling system the above works just fine!
>>
>> Can somebody give me a hint on how to tackle this puzzle?
>>
>> With best regards
>>
>> Andreas
> 
> Maybe you have a copy of lsqcurvefit in your current directory? What
> does 'which lsqcurvefit' say, in the same Octave session which shows
> the problem?
> 
> Anyway, you probably should not call it a problem with lsqcurvefit if
> private functions are not found ...
> 
> Olaf
> 
THANK YOU

Olaf 
you are right on target. While playing around I copied nonlin_curvefit.m
into the current directory. Since this is called within lsqcurvefit() the 
private functions were not found.


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