RE: Cannot install statistics pkg from the command line

[Windhorn, Allen E [ACIM/LSA/MKT]]

Nick,

From: Help-octave <help-octave-bounces+allen.windhorn=address@hidden> On Behalf 
Of Nick Gayeski

> I have just downloaded and install GNU Octave on my Windows 7 desktop
> computer. I then tried to install the statistics package using the command
> on the next line below, and received the error message on the following lines:
> 
> pkg install -forge package_statistics ...

The statistics package is not called package_statistics in the Octave-Forge 
repository, it is just called statistics.  Try that with the -forge option.

> I also downloaded the statistics package 1.4.1 tar, unzipped with WinZip and
> installed in the the same directory in which  Octave is installed. But any
> command to a statistics script returns the error message that the stats pkg is
> not installed.

If you didn't do "pkg install" something, you didn't install the package.

Type help pkg and read the result.  And remember, you also have to load the
package before you can use it, unless you set it up to load automatically (see
previous sentence).

Regards,
Allen