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Re: Octave advocacy
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Henry F. Mollet |
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Re: Octave advocacy |
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:52:35 -0700 |
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This is a bit premature but I submitted a comment paper to the American
Naturalist (in review) which concludes with the following sentence in the
acknowledgement:
"This comment paper could not have been accomplished without GNU Octave (see
Eaton and Rawlings, 2003) and address@hidden with a large number of
contributors."
Henry
N.B. If I really wanted to, I would have MATLAB available at the lab but
prefer to use Octave at home on my iMac. Also, I don't what R can and cannot
do.
on 9/16/04 1:15 PM, John W. Eaton at address@hidden wrote:
> 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 is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html
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Re: Octave advocacy, Quentin Spencer, 2004/09/17