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Bug 2158 - strange behaviour of ft_math

Status CLOSED FIXED
Reported 2013-05-07 15:11:00 +0200
Modified 2014-01-29 13:28:38 +0100
Product: FieldTrip
Component: core
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC
Operating System: Windows
Importance: P3 normal
Assigned to: Eelke Spaak
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- 2013-05-07 15:11:25 +0200

Hi guys, I think something is wrong with ft_math. It does things that I'm sure are quite wrong with elementary operations. Have a look at the toy example below... (running DCCN version of ft from /home/common from a torque interactive session) @@@BEGIN@@@ % make a couple of fake ft structures test1=[]; test1.label={'chan1';'chan2';'chan3'}; test1.freq=1:4; test1.time=1:2; test1.dimord='chan_freq_time'; test1.powspctrm=ones(length(test1.label),length(test1.freq),length(test1.time)); test1.cfg.randomfieldname='something has to go here otherwise the provenance fails'; test2=test1; test2.powspctrm=3*test1.powspctrm; %powspctrm of test1 is all 1s, test2 is all 3s test1.powspctrm test2.powspctrm %do some math on them cfg=[]; cfg.operation='add'; cfg.parameter='powspctrm'; test3=ft_math(cfg,test2,test1); %this should repeatedly add 1 and 3, producing 4s test3.powspctrm %I get 6s cfg.operation='subtract'; test4=ft_math(cfg,test2,test1); %this should subtract 1 from 3, producing 2s test4.powspctrm %I get 0s cfg.operation='add'; test5=ft_math(cfg,test1,test2); %if this doesn't produce 4s, at least maybe it'll produce the same output as test3 test5.powspctrm %nope! @@@END@@@ What's going on here? Am I using the function completely wrongly?


Eelke Spaak - 2013-05-07 15:27:11 +0200

confirmed here, definitely a bug


Eelke Spaak - 2013-05-07 15:35:31 +0200

line 48 read: varargin{i} = ft_checkdata(varargin{1}, 'datatype', type); where of course the varargin{1} should have been varargin{i}. Fixed now in rev 8108, should be available in the /home/common/ release in a few minutes.


Johanna - 2013-05-07 15:59:04 +0200

Good spot Eelke! beat me to it. # But I also found the bug in the 'add' and 'multiply' sections, that also should loop over 'i' but instead use varargin{2} I'll fix that....


Johanna - 2013-05-07 16:10:08 +0200

fixed, svn r8109. I also noticed the 'nth' subfunction does not work for 21, 22 , 23... but then can't just do rem(n,10) as it won't work for 11, 12, 13... Surely this problem has been solved before elsehwere?


Johanna - 2013-05-07 16:19:33 +0200

'nth' subfunction enhanced now. svn 8110.


Eelke Spaak - 2014-01-29 13:28:38 +0100

changing lots of bugs from resolved to closed.