Scientific Software options for Ubuntu

[manzdagratiano]

SAGE... I'm an R geek and I just discovered SAGE. It's positively wonderful! I hope it gets in the Ubuntu repository soon! It doesn't get enough press!

http://www.sagemath.org/index.html

I think it's going to be big!




...(R is still the best for stats)

SAGE is indeed phenomenal!!! It contains R and Maxima, and much more... I have completely discarded Mathematica in favor of SAGE.

[manzdagratiano]

And the best deal is, aside from it being open-source, it is written in Python!!! The author, William Stein, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington. His blog:

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/

is quite compelling - especially the history of SAGE:

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2009/12...d-me-very.html

READ it pray!

[attila82]

- matplotlib 2D, graphs & more
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/f

- mendeleydesktop - to organize documents, papers...
http://www.mendeley.com/

[tonyt3]

One of the best packages I have seen is Matlab. It is not open source -- a proprietary version of which Octave is available as open; available for all OS. a huge percentage of people in the earth sciences use it. extensible, interpreted. www.mathsoft.com

[zhangtudou]

Is any physicist using ROOT?
http://root.cern.ch/drupal/
It is powerful on data analysing, based on C++, gets a lot of open source classes.

sudo apt-get install root-system

[ibsys2562]

I would (unfortunately) add qemu for those who have no time to learn a new program and need solution right away (thus using Windows)... again, unfortunately.

PS. SPSS => R != GUI => qemu + keku + SPSS

Hey! None of you Ubuntu scientists would happen to be social scientists, would you? And if you are (or not) would you happen to know how to get the latest version of PSPP from CVS? When I do the first step described in their instructions (make -f Smake) it works for a while, then prints out a lot of commented "include" statements, and then the following:

[kokoshmusun]

I am a social scientist, but have never used PSPP. I could use it on some tests, but normally I need a lot more options than PSPP offers at the time. I've been thinking about switching to R, but haven't found the time. If you're interested in learning it together, we could team up to give each other encouragement.

[Love-computers]

I use free pascal

[johny28]

i use matplotlib 2D its great tools

[mlamorey]

I'm looking for a circuit / field simulator.
Very little to do with silicon or cmos more along the lines of relays and MEMS. Any thoughts / experience?

Also, I' a heavy Matlab user at work and based upon input from this forum I'm going to go with Octave rather than buying Matlab for Linux at home.