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Octave advocacy
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John W. Eaton |
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Octave advocacy |
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:15:10 -0400 |
The following message was posted to sci.math.num-analysis today.
From: rif <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: best software environment for numerical analysis
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
Date: 16 Sep 2004 14:42:23 -0400
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I prefer R, which is the successor of S. It's free (beer and
freedom), has much better graphics than Octave, has a good high-level
control language, and has a huge array of software available. It was
designed with statistics in mind, but is extremely useful for a wide
range of numerical tasks. (IMO, the only time Octave is really a good
choice is if you have to run existing Matlab, and even then, it rarely
works, as Octave is missing many of Matlab's features.)
Cheers,
rif
Would some Octave users like to counter this? Presumably some people
on this list find that Octave works a bit more than "rarely".
Thanks,
jwe
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- Octave advocacy,
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