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+## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} rot90 (@var{A})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} rot90 (@var{A}, @var{k})
+## Return a copy of @var{A} with the elements rotated counterclockwise in
+## 90-degree increments. The second argument is optional, and specifies
+## how many 90-degree rotations are to be applied (the default value is 1).
+## Negative values of @var{k} rotate the matrix in a clockwise direction.
+## For example,
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## rot90 ([1, 2; 3, 4], -1)
+## @result{} 3 1
+## 4 2
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @noindent
+## rotates the given matrix clockwise by 90 degrees. The following are all
+## equivalent statements:
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## rot90 ([1, 2; 3, 4], -1)
+## rot90 ([1, 2; 3, 4], 3)
+## rot90 ([1, 2; 3, 4], 7)
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## Note that @code{rot90} only works with 2-D arrays. To rotate N-D arrays
+## use @code{rotdim} instead.
+## @seealso{rotdim, flipud, fliplr, flipdim}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function B = rot90 (A, k = 1)
+
+ if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (ndims (A) > 2)
+ error ("rot90: A must be a 2-D array");
+ elseif (! (isscalar (k) && isreal (k) && k == fix (k)))
+ error ("rot90: K must be a single real integer");
+ endif
+
+ k = mod (k, 4);
+
+ if (k == 0)
+ B = A;
+ elseif (k == 1)
+ B = flipud (A.');
+ elseif (k == 2)
+ B = flipud (fliplr (A));
+ elseif (k == 3)
+ B = (flipud (A)).';
+ else
+ error ("rot90: internal error!");
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!test
+%! x1 = [1, 2; 3, 4];
+%! x2 = [2, 4; 1, 3];
+%! x3 = [4, 3; 2, 1];
+%! x4 = [3, 1; 4, 2];
+%!
+%! assert(rot90 (x1), x2);
+%! assert(rot90 (x1, 2), x3);
+%! assert(rot90 (x1, 3), x4);
+%! assert(rot90 (x1, 4), x1);
+%! assert(rot90 (x1, 5), x2);
+%! assert(rot90 (x1, -1), x4);
+
+%% Test input validation
+%!error rot90 ();
+%!error rot90 (1, 2, 3);
+%!error rot90 (1, ones(2));
+%!error rot90 (1, 1.5);
+%!error rot90 (1, 1+i);