## Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Kurt Hornik
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} cor (@var{x})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} cor (@var{x}, @var{y})
## Compute matrix of correlation coefficients.
##
## This is an alias for @code{corrcoef}.
## @seealso{corrcoef}
## @end deftypefn

function retval = cor (x, y = x)

  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
             "cor is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use corr instead");
  endif

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  retval = corrcoef (x, y);

endfunction


%!test
%! x = rand (10, 2);
%! assert (cor (x), corrcoef (x), 5*eps);
%! assert (cor (x(:,1), x(:,2)) == corrcoef (x(:,1), x(:,2)));

%% Test input validation
%!error corrcoef ();
%!error corrcoef (1, 2, 3);

