Has QR [Q,R,E]=qr(X,0) changed? licols for extracting lin indep cols is not working

I am using the downloaded code licols.m for extracting a lin indep set of columns from a matrix. It is based on the qr algorithm in the form

[q,r,e] = qr(X,0);

The algorithm is based on the diagonal of r dominating the upper triangular parts and the diagonal of r (in abs value) being nonincreasing. But my examples/random problems illustrate that this is not true for r. Has QR changed? If so, then licols.m needs to be modified.

Is there older version of qr around to use with licols?

Answer 1

[Bruno Luong]

It seems working fine on random matrix (R2021b online server or my PC)

X=randn(1000);
[q,r,e] = qr(X,0);
issorted(abs(diag(r)),"descend")

ans = logical
   1