diff --git a/inst/octave/bootcoeff.m b/inst/octave/bootcoeff.m
index c8a7f0f5..5242fca7 100644
--- a/inst/octave/bootcoeff.m
+++ b/inst/octave/bootcoeff.m
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
     error ('bootcoeff: only supported by Octave')
   end
   statspackage = ismember ({info.Name}, 'statistics');
-  if (~ any (statspackage)) || (str2num(info(statspackage).Version(1:3)) < 1.5)
+  if (~ any (statspackage)) || (str2num (info (statspackage).Version(1:3)) < 1.5)
     error ('bootcoeff: requires version >= 1.5 of the statistics package')
   end
 
diff --git a/inst/octave/bootemm.m b/inst/octave/bootemm.m
index 96b4e39f..0ea57a8d 100644
--- a/inst/octave/bootemm.m
+++ b/inst/octave/bootemm.m
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     error ('bootemm: only supported by Octave')
   end
   statspackage = ismember ({info.Name}, 'statistics');
-  if (~ any (statspackage)) || (str2num(info(statspackage).Version(1:3)) < 1.5)
+  if (~ any (statspackage)) || (str2num (info (statspackage).Version(1:3)) < 1.5)
     error ('bootemm: requires version >= 1.5 of the statistics package')
   end
   if (ismember (dim, find (STATS.continuous)))