function errorBars2 in testfunctions.m requires count.dat

[mbauman]

Line 738 of testfunctions.m calls load count.dat, but there is not a count.dat file in the repository.

[nschloe]

Well that shouldn't be needed either. MATLAB(R) includes that file for testing purposes by default. 'load count.dat' works for me on the command line. -- Not for you?

[mbauman]

Ah, I understand the issue now. You are right, I do have count.dat, and load count.dat functions as expected from the command line. The problem is that I also have a local function count.m in my PATH. While local variables should supersede functions, it appears as though if they're not declared within that scope then MATLAB uses the function first.

Explicitly saying count = load('count.dat'); is more robust.

Thanks for all the work on this! I really appreciate all it can do.

[nschloe]

i just put a count.m in my path (hence "declaring" an entity 'count'), loaded count.dat, and the result is that there is now a variable 'count' containing the expected data. I don't really understand how that screws your test function, but I admit this is ugly and I prefer your suggestion of assigning the count variable more explicitly.
Will commit that now. Thanks!

[mbauman]

Yeah, interactively (on the command line) things behave as you expect. However, within the test function, MATLAB seems to not recognize that a variable count is in the workspace if it's not explicitly assigned to... and so it calls the function count instead.

It's a strange bug (or implementation limitation). I can't seem to put the correct search together to find any documentation about it, though. (Edit: Aha! See here: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/161463) Thanks again!