Octave 3.8 has been released and it has a GUI
Octave is a free, open source language for numerical computing that is mostly compatible with MATLAB. For years, the official Octave project has been strictly command-line only which puts many users off — particularly those who were used to the graphical user interface (GUI) of MATLAB. Unofficial GUIs have come and gone over the years but none of them were fully satisfactory for one reason or another.
As of the 3.8 release of Octave on 31st December 2013, this all changed when Octave started shipping with its own, official GUI. It is currently considered as ‘experimental’ by the Octave team and is obviously rough around the edges here and there but it is already quite usable.
The system includes
- An editor with syntax highlighting and code folding
- A debugger
- A file browser and workspace viewer
- The ability to hide and move different elements of the GUI around (e.g. you could swap the positions of the workspace and File Browser, or tear-off the editor into its own Window)
- A documentation browser
- The Octave command window
I’ve spent an hour or so playing with it today and like it a lot!
Thanks to Júlio Hoffimann Mendes who let me know about this new release.
Thanks Mike for spreading the words.
Best,
Júlio.
So where is the download link?
On your screenshot you are posting Octave running on Windows, while latest version seems to be 3.6.4: http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave Windows binaries/
Or do we expect Windows users to compile Octave sources?
Right.
@kalo Binary downloads are indeed rather confusing at the moment…a point I made in come comments over at http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5324#comment-1232141. At the time of writing, I am not aware of any official binaries for 3.8
The build I used is at http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/
It is not official
Thanks @Mike
Another option which includes a pain-free MATLAB-like GUI for Windows and Linux is Octave UPM.
http://mat.caminos.upm.es/octave/
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1319905
The official website is in Spanish, but the software is in English by default.
In our podcast (also in Spanish, sorry for that) we interviewed his main developer(@herraiz).
http://cacheme.org/matlab-yo-uso-octave-upm/
Note: Mike, I know that we owe you a comparison. Since this new version of Octave has been released, let me try to prepare something with Israel comparing both.
Why not collaborating rather than comparing and competing.
The open source OCTAVE user community would like to see the two GUI merging to give us the best of all.
Akbar
THANKS A LOTO for your download link about octave vers.3.8.
I’m a beginner in the use of the SW and I have a short question which could be related to my no-experience.
I tried to start introducing this simple command
>> input (“a number”)
a number100
ans = [](0x0)
>>
I was expecting:
>> input (“a number”)
a number100
ans = 100
>>
Where is my mistake? Would you help me?
Thanks in advance
Eugenio
@enniopa
solved.
I must add the line a=imput(“number”)
enniopa
can someone help me?
I’m searching the function xlsread for octave 3.81 Windows.
is it exsisting?
where to find and how to install?
Thanks in advance.
enniopa
can someone help me?
I’m searching the function xlsread for octave 3.81 Windows.
is it existing?
where to find and how to install?
It seems the package i/o (and the function xlsread) are not included in the SW octave 3.8.1 for Windows.
Could someone give me confirmation?
the IO Package can be found at the OctaveForge
http://octave.sourceforge.net/
Did you run the build_packages.m script htat is included in the Octave package?
You can find it in %Octave%/src
@enniopa
Please run the
%Octave%/src/build_packages.m script
Thanks for the download info. I downloaded octave-3.8.0.5, and installed it on windows 7. When I ran build_packages in /src folder, I got the following error while installing ‘tsa-4.2.7.tar.gz’ package.
pkg (‘install’, ‘tsa-4.2.7.tar.gz’)
ls: /usr/local/MATLAB: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/local/MATLAB/R*: No such file or directory
ls: /usr/local/MATLAB/R*: No such file or directory
make: /bin/mexext: Command not found
make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-25/tsa/src’
ls: /usr/local/MATLAB/R*: No such file or directory
make: /bin/mexext: Command not found
C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lgomp
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [covm_mex.mex] Error 1
mkoctfile –mex “covm_mex.cpp” -lgomp -llapack -lblas ## Octave
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-25/tsa/src’
pkg: error running `make’ for the tsa package.
error: called from ‘configure_make’ in file C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\3.
g\private\configure_make.m near line 82, column 9
error: called from:
error: C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\3.8.0\m\pkg\private\install.m at line
lumn 5
error: C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.0\share\octave\3.8.0\m\pkg\pkg.m at line 394, column
error: C:/Octave/Octave-3.8.0/src\build_packages.m at line 32, column 1
Do you know how to fix it/ work around it? Did you experience this problem?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
I have installed Octave in my PC, but the language is in German, because I am in Germany.
How can I change the language to English?
Thank you in advance :)