Problems using pmtk3 in OS X

I'm trying to use Kevin Murphy's pmtk3 software.

I've encountered problems when the loadData() function is called. I think I've narrowed it down to the stat() function call in loadData().

I can't find the stat() function using help stat. I think the stat() function called might be the PERL stat function.

Any suggestions & help is appreciated.

Answer 1

[john]

Hi,

I had the same problem. Here's a work around, not especially elegant. I downloaded the data files manually and unzipped them into the C:\pmtk3-master\pmtkdataCopy directory (should be a bunch of directories, one for each data set). Then I modified the code in loadData.m to

    %[info,msg,err] = stat(dest);
    %if (msg == 0)
    if(true)

to bypass the stat function completely. Since this function is supposed to check whether the data has already been downloaded eveything should work fine.