Created sunspot.dat file based on the noaa site

load sunspot.dat
year = sunspot (:, 1);
avSpots = sunspot (:, 2);

Works as expected, however
findpeaks (avSpots, year)

Fails with this error:

error: findpeaks: non-string for Parameter name or Switch
error: called from
    error at line 573 column 7
    parse at line 474 column 11
    findpeaks at line 143 column 5

A plot was expected.
Was the file created wrong?


(file #51014)

I added the west0479 data file in this changeset:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/c2c528319260

I agree that we should probably create a feature request on the bug tracker instead of having a discussion here with no patch(es).

Reviewing for Octave 6 release.  I see no patches attached.  Maybe this is a discussion more suited for the maintainers-mailing list.

Closing as there is nothing to do here.

• accidents.mat

This file has the following variables:

  Name              Size            Bytes  Class     Attributes

  datasources       3x1              2724  cell
  hwycols           1x1                 8  double
  hwydata          51x17             6936  double
  hwyheaders        1x17             2758  cell
  hwyidx           51x1               408  double
  hwyrows           1x1                 8  double
  statelabel       51x1              6596  cell
  ushwydata         1x17              136  double
  uslabel           1x1               138  cell

And the datasources states where the data comes from:

>> datasources{1}

ans =

    'SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts 2004 Early Edition, Washington, DC: 2005, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/ TSF2004EarlyEdition.pdf as of Dec. 15, 2005; U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2004, Washington, DC: forthcoming. (Table 2-1:  Highway Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rates: 2004)'

>> datasources{2}

ans =

    'SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts 2004: Alcohol, Washington, DC: 2005, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/availinf.html as of Nov. 4, 2005; U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Web-based Encyclopedia, available at http://www-fars.nthsa.dot.gov as of Nov. 4, 2005.'

>> datasources{3}

ans =

    'SOURCES: Population data is from the U.S. Census of Population for 2000. State geographic centroids are not from the Census Bureau.
     For complete information about Summary File 4 (SF 4), consult the technical documentation available at http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf4.pdf'