Re: [PLUG] matlab

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:26:53 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Ron Kaye Jr <rekaye1005@verizon.net>
> Subject: [PLUG] matlab
>
> is there an open source program equivalent to MATLAB?

Here is everything I know of the topic.  Most of these were already 
mentioned, but I have some handy URLs.  Disclaimer, I've never actually 
tried any of these, I did some research in Jan 2006 on the subject though.

http://www.r-project.org/	A free implementation of S, a statistical and 
modeling language

http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=matlab&type_of_search=soft	MatLab 
related tools and other possible clones

http://www.octave.org/	A free alternative to MatLab (v1.0 was in 1994)
http://www.scilab.org/	A free alternative to MatLab (1994)
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/	A free alternative to MatLab (dates back 
into the 1960's)
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/FrontPage	A free alternative to MatLab 
(from IBM back into 1973)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemat	A free alternative to MatLab
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnatlab	A free alternative to MatLab 
(Unix only, Alpha stage)

http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html	List of free Statistical 
software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB	Wikipedia on MatLab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave	Wikipedia on Octave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima	Wikipedia on Maxima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_computer_algebra_system	Wikipedia on 
Axion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilab	Wikipedia on SciLab


Hope some of this is useful,
JP
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