From Matlab to Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Tim wrote:

> Hi,
> I am thinking about transfering from Matlab to Octave. My major  
> concerns are:
>
> (1) if octave has equivalence of all those toolboxes of Matlab and  
> they are as powerful? For example, the image processing toolbox,   
> statistics toolbox, and the bioinfomatics package?
>
> (2) Is there a lot of work to modify Octave script to Matlab script  
> and vice versa?
>
> If possible please point me to some websites or materials that can  
> help me to decide whether to work in Matlab or Octave.
> Thanks and regards!

Welcome to Octave.

Regarding the toolboxes, Octave's can be found at the link below.  
Octave refers to them as "packages".

	http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html

Octave can run most Matlab scripts. If you use Matlab's GUI  
capabilities, take a look at the jhandles package.

	http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/jhandles.html

The Octave web site documents many differences between Octave and  
Matlab.

	http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/FAQ.html#MATLAB-compatibility

For me, what makes Octave attractive is that anyone can add features  
by joining the development community. If you find something missing,  
please consider contributing.

Ben