reporting: add xTicks argument

(cherry picked from commit 6f8d7fd0ecc6b01dc61f0f6edfd763361b04ab1d)
reporting: fix if statement for changes in dynDates/dates class

(cherry picked from commit 08199dc881e69dd73333a7939c18c4254652b09b)
 Add a second output argument to CheckPath nonzero iff the routine creates a new directory.

(cherry picked from commit fd5742a399dca1a125e170123d2125b77e8f5b2a)
Fixed bug.

(cherry picked from commit 8e6df8560462fa19098c6708284460cef958cea1)
Renamed tests/run_unitary_tests.m script to avoid conflict with matlab/utilities/tests/run_unitary_tests.m function.

(cherry picked from commit 8b1e76a1bfcca7908ad78efebde6dfb1480da4cd)
Fix bug in method disp of dseries.
(cherry picked from commit 6e8b35c7f3d0b153d152037315f78f12b6a4dc7c)
Fix treatment of error conditions in bytecode.
(manually cherry picked from commit b9df616c18fdb03749fccbce90efbc813b8e1f07)
reporting: bug fix: avoid underscores altogether

(cherry picked from commit 359245b65b93915bfa19ae6ca922de25ffab52cf)
reporting: bug fix: Windows can't handle windows-style file separators in latex

(cherry picked from commit c0149f69d955665f34e7399f5598d4b2adb04576)
Added @dates/ne method. Overloads the ~= operator.

(cherry picked from commit 264460e9d0c438f328bc1b3e4babec1c4839e4bf)
Initialize stock1_filter_step_ahead to prevent crash in Octave
(cherry picked from commit cac48d2e8099d1e516cfc0753d49ea4b9cd0420c)