Re: sparse matrix promoted to full for no reason

[Krishna Mohan Gundu]

> What version of Octave are you using?  I see the following with
> 2.9.12:
>
>   octave:1> s = speye (1000);
>   octave:2> s(1,1) = 1;
>   octave:3> typeinfo (s)
>   ans = sparse matrix

You are right it works in 2.9.12.
It seems to be a path related problem for me. I installed 2.9.12
yesterday, but path still points to older 2.1.50

thanks,
Krishna.