Installation issue on windows using octave

Hi,

I am trying to install hctsa using octave engine and anaconda python 2.7 on windows. I have added octave to my path. However, now I get this error message:

(base) C:\Temp\octave-4.0.0\bin>hctsa-cli install --engine octave
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:\Temp\anaconda2\Scripts\hctsa-cli.exe_main.py", line 9, in <module

File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\hctsa\hctsa_cli.py", line 22,
in main
parser.dispatch()
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\argh\helpers.py", line 55, in dispat
ch
return dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\argh\dispatching.py", line 174, in d
ispatch
for line in lines:
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\argh\dispatching.py", line 277, in _
execute_command
for line in result:
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\argh\dispatching.py", line 260, in _
call
result = function(*positional, **keywords)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\hctsa\hctsa_install.py", line
258, in install
hctsa_prepare_engine(engine)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\hctsa\hctsa_install.py", line
194, in hctsa_prepare_engine
engine.add_path(op.join(HCTSA_DIR, 'Operations'))
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\base.py", line 627, in add_pat
h
_, (matlab_path,) = self.eval('ans=path();', outs2py=True)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\base.py", line 476, in eval
command + (';' if supress_text_output and not command.endswith(';') else '')
)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\backend_oct2py.py", line 131,
in _run_command_hook
text_response = self.session().eval(new_command,
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\base.py", line 554, in session

self._session = self._session_hook()

File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\backend_oct2py.py", line 158,
in _session_hook
return Oct2PyNotAll(executable=self._engine_location)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\backend_oct2py.py", line 151,
in init
super(Oct2PyNotAll, self).init(executable, logger, timeout, oned_as, tem
p_dir, convert_to_float)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\oct2py\core.py", line 73, in _init
_
self.restart()
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pyopy\backend_oct2py.py", line 154,
in restart
super(Oct2PyNotAll, self).restart()
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\oct2py\core.py", line 508, in restar
t
logger=self.logger)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\octave_kernel\kernel.py", line 158,
in init
self.repl = self._create_repl()
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\octave_kernel\kernel.py", line 367,
in create_repl
stdin_prompt_regex=STDIN_PROMPT_REGEX)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\metakernel\replwrap.py", line 92, in
init
continuation_prompt_regex))
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\metakernel\replwrap.py", line 113, i
n set_prompt
self.child.expect(prompt_regex)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pexpect\spawnbase.py", line 327, in
expect
timeout, searchwindowsize, async)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pexpect\spawnbase.py", line 355, in
expect_list
return exp.expect_loop(timeout)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pexpect\expect.py", line 104, in exp
ect_loop
return self.timeout(e)
File "c:\temp\anaconda2\lib\site-packages\pexpect\expect.py", line 68, in time
out
raise TIMEOUT(msg)
pexpect.exceptions.TIMEOUT: <pexpect.popen_spawn.PopenSpawn object at 0x00000000
08B63160>
searcher: searcher_re:
0: re.compile("octave.>")
<pexpect.popen_spawn.PopenSpawn object at 0x0000000008B63160>
searcher: searcher_re:
0: re.compile("octave.>")

Any help would be appreciated.

[benfulcher]

I've never tested how far you can get using octave to run hctsa. I suspect not too far, although I'd be curious how many algorithms will run properly in octave (rather than Matlab). I can't help with any specific pyopy issues, unfortunately.

[sdvillal]

Windows and octave is a combination that I never tried. As Ben says, even if you make it work, many hctsa operations will not work.

The error you report is a timeout. Since the last time I tried, octave has changed a lot. Most prominently it now starts on a GUI by default. I suspect we would need to add a "--no-gui" somewhere.

[sdvillal]

A quick search shows this: blink1073/oct2py#82

So set OCTAVE_EXECUTABLE accordingly to your octave version and we should be good to go (at least for this error).

As I said, these are uncharted territories. Before even playing with pyopy I would first try hctsa directly in octave to check if the operations you need can work.