File: numgrad2.m

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function [g, badg] = numgrad2(fcn,f0,x,epsilon,varargin)
% function [g badg] = numgrad2(fcn,xvarargin)

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fh = NaN;

delta = epsilon;
n=length(x);
tvec=delta*eye(n);
g=zeros(n,1);

badg=0;
goog=1;
scale=1;
g0 = 0;
for i=1:n
    if size(x,1)>size(x,2)
        tvecv=tvec(i,:);
    else
        tvecv=tvec(:,i);
    end
    [fh,junk1,junk2,cost_flag] = feval(fcn, x+scale*transpose(tvecv), varargin{:});
    if cost_flag
        g0 = (fh - f0) / (scale*delta);
    else
        [fh,junk1,junk2,cost_flag] = feval(fcn, x-scale*transpose(tvecv), varargin{:});
        if cost_flag
            g0 = (f0-fh) / (scale*delta);
        else
            goog = 0;
        end
    end
    if goog && abs(g0)< 1e15
        g(i) = g0;
    else
        disp('bad gradient ------------------------')
        % fprintf('Gradient w.r.t. %3d: %10g\n',i,g0)
        g(i) = 0;
        badg = 1;
    end
end