Re: Octave advocacy

[Quentin Spencer]

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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