TIL how to install Octave packages permalink

pkg install -forge io
pkg install -forge statistics

I wanted to use the Statistics package from Octave Forge to randomly select samples from my training set to test functions I was writing.

Installation proved to be a little tricky.

I tried the following:

• downloading the gzipped tarball to my local disk and installing the file
• installing directly from Octave Forge using the -forge flag
• restarting Octave and retrying installing from Octave Forge

I couldn’t tell you why installing from Octave Forge didn’t work the first time. And, when it didn’t work that first time, I went about my classwork without it just fine. When I finished it though, I had to come back and try to figure it out.

Octave Forge has some other interesting packages like:

• data-smoothing
• database
• dataframe
• queueing
• parallel

I probably won’t invest a bunch of time learning this though. I think the value is in the python version of these libraries.