Can't use pkg on Octave 4.2.1 MacOS

[franck Desaize]

Hi everybody ,

I have a problem to use PKG with octave… 

Octave have been installed with MacPort and the pkg too. 

For example : pkg io 

- Pkg loading is ok 

- Pkg Using doesn’t work : 

- just trying to make a simple xls file with the fonction xlswrite, it prompts me this : 

error :’col2num’ undefined near line 49 column 10 

error: called from

parse_sp_range at line 49 column8

xlswrite at line 185 column 34

But I have previously install octave 4.0.3, and it worked with the bundle version … I can’t use the bundle version because I have to launch Octave without the GUI… 

Thank you for your Help 

Franck