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What’s the best MATLAB equivalent? (open source or otherwise free)
Please suggest any open source/free software equivalent to Matlab for windows with same syntax which is best and widely used
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Octave is a free Matlab-like program that a lot of people seem to like.
This site has a whole list of free alternatives: http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~ehrhardt/matlab_alternatives.html
Tim Goodman
2010-02-16 05:34:58
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GNU Octave is the closest replacement, it supports large parts of the Matlab syntax, plus incorporates several improvements (IMHO) to the language.
But if you are familiar with python I suggest you also take a look at SciPy. Powerful language, a lot of libraries, and active development in scientific libraries (plotting, calculus, etc.). Use the ipython interactive shell.
catchmeifyoutry
2010-02-16 05:37:53
Can you expand on what you consider to be the improvements? (I'm just curious.) Thanks!
JasCav
2010-02-16 05:48:04
Well it has been a long time since I used octave, but if I remember correctly octave allows to access matrix elements directly returned by a function, e.g.: `magic(5)(1,1)`. Matlab requires temporary variables.
catchmeifyoutry
2010-02-16 06:03:35
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The most popular alternatives are: Octave and Scilab (www.scilab.org).
proxymoron
2010-02-16 07:28:45
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First the obvious choices for MATLAB alternatives:
- Octave [especially with Xoctave as front-end; very similar to MATLAB interface]
- Scilab
- Python + SciPy + matplotlib
- R
And heres a number of similar environments (not all of them are OSS):
- FreeMat
- RLab [discontinued]
- Mathnium (Freeware)
- Sysquake LE (Freeware)
- O-Matrix (Commercial)
Amro
2010-02-16 16:15:29
You might want to add sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) to that list, since it'll do a lot of the symbolic stuff that others won't.
Chinmay Kanchi
2010-02-16 21:40:04