Re: Octave advocacy

[NZG]

Indeed some kind of symbolic math plugin would be a very nice addition to the 
distro's as well.
I use Debian, so octave-forge was easy, but getting a good symbolic plugin has 
proved a little tricky.
Any suggestions?

NZG.

On Friday 17 September 2004 11:14 am, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> A lot of people have responded to this, but I would like to add just one
> more thing. Given the frequency of questions on this list that are
> answered by "try function x in octave-forge", I think not enough people
> are aware of octave-forge and other add-ons, which add a large number of
> additional capabilities. Octave is far more useful to me with
> octave-forge and I suspect this is the case for many others on this list
> as well. Perhaps we need a little "octave-forge advocacy"? One problem I
> see is the RPM-based Linux distributions generally include octave but
> not octave-forge (Debian users don't have this problem thanks to Dirk).
> It would be nice to get octave-forge included in more distributions.
>
> --Quentin
>
> John W. Eaton 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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