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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} diff (@var{x}, @var{k})
- ## If @var{x} is a vector of length @var{n}, @code{diff (@var{x})} is the
- ## vector of first differences
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $x_2 - x_1, \ldots{}, x_n - x_{n-1}$.
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ## @var{x}(2) - @var{x}(1), @dots{}, @var{x}(n) - @var{x}(n-1).
- ## @end ifinfo
- ##
- ## If @var{x} is a matrix, @code{diff (@var{x})} is the matrix of column
- ## differences.
- ##
- ## The second argument is optional. If supplied, @code{diff (@var{x},
- ## @var{k})}, where @var{k} is a nonnegative integer, returns the
- ## @var{k}-th differences.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: 2 February 1995
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function x = diff (x, k)
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- k = 1;
- elseif (nargin == 2)
- if (! (is_scalar (k) && k == round (k) && k >= 0))
- error ("diff: k must be a nonnegative integer");
- elseif (k == 0)
- return;
- endif
- else
- usage ("diff (x [, k]");
- endif
-
- if (isstr (x))
- error ("diff: symbolic differentiation not (yet) supported");
- elseif (is_vector (x))
- n = length (x);
- if (n <= k)
- x = [];
- else
- for i = 1 : k
- x = x (2 : (n - i + 1)) - x (1 : (n - i));
- endfor
- endif
- elseif (is_matrix (x))
- n = rows (x);
- if (n <= k)
- x = [];
- else
- for i = 1 : k
- x = x (2 : (n - i + 1), :) - x (1: (n - i), :);
- endfor
- endif
- else
- x = [];
- endif
-
- endfunction
-