SPM Patches for Octave

More details on the SPM documentation.

A patched SPM can be installed on Octave using the following script:

%% Store current working directory
cwd = pwd;

%% Download SPM12 r7771
unzip ("https://github.com/spm/spm12/archive/r7771.zip", cwd);

%% Patch SPM12
urlwrite ("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spm/spm-octave/main/spm12_r7771.patch", "spm12_r7771.patch");
system ("patch -p3 -d spm12-r7771 < spm12_r7771.patch");

%% Compile MEX files
cd (fullfile (cwd, "spm12-r7771", "src"));
system ("make PLATFORM=octave");
system ("make PLATFORM=octave install");

%% Add SPM12 to the function search path
addpath (fullfile (cwd, "spm12-r7771"));
cd (cwd);

%% Start SPM12
spm

The patches contain implementations of:

• fcnchk.m: undocumented function
• rng.m: function introduced in Octave 7.1
• gui_mainfcn.m: undocumented function introduced in Octave 6.1