Scientific Computing

After running into unsurmountable (for me) problems in installing Matlab R13 on Linux, I did some research for a Matlab replacement. This guy compares Octave (GNU), Scilab (INRIA) and python, and there’s also the R Project for statistics, and bc (GNU) in a terminal for quick and simple calculations, with syntax somewhat similar to C. Let’s not forget Sage.

~ by azimout on October 30, 2007.

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One Response to “Scientific Computing”

  1. octave and scilab are available in the repositories (octave in universe/math, scilab in multiverse/math).

    according to the instructions at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/, i did:
    echo "deb http://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/ #R-project" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
    gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821
    gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -
    sudo aptitude update
    sudo aptitude install r-base

    azimout said this on May 20, 2008 at 3:26 pm | Reply

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