Scientific Software options for Ubuntu

[akniss]

At MIPS suggestion:
A place to tell others about software that you have found to be useful in scientific fields. Feel free to post your useful scientific software packages, and I will try to keep this first post up to date with your suggestions.


Statistics:
R
http://www.r-project.org/

sudo aptitude install r-recommended

LaTeX editors:
Lyx
http://www.lyx.org/

sudo aptitude install lyx

Kile
http://kile.sourceforge.net/

sudo aptitude install kile

TeXmaker
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

sudo aptitude install texmaker

Bibtex:
Pybliographer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pybliographer/

sudo aptitude install pybliographer

Bibliographic Database:
Bibus
http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/....php/Main_Page
Installation instructions


Spreadsheet:
Gnumeric
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

sudo aptitude install gnumeric

Desktop Publishing:
Scribus
http://www.scribus.net/

sudo aptitude install scribus

GIS:
GRASS
http://grass.itc.it/

sudo aptitude install grass

QGIS
http://qgis.org/

sudo aptitude install qgis

Mathematics:
Scilab
http://www.scilab.org/

sudo aptitude install scilab

Some users have had issues with text showing up only in Hindi when installing scilab from the Ubuntu repos. There is a binary version available on the scilab website. Just unpack it and read the README_Unix file.

Maxima
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

sudo aptitude install maxima

Octave
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

sudo aptitude install octave

[Barrakketh]

You could consider giving Kile a try for LaTeX. It's rather nice.

[neoflight]

You could consider giving Kile a try for LaTeX. It's rather nice.

a how to for texmaker and kile with texlive in my signature....
even some instructions on getting kile from source without tetex ....

[Timtro]

You could consider giving Kile a try for LaTeX. It's rather nice.

TeXmaker is nice too. I hear it's from the guy who started the Kile project. There are some differences, but Texmaker loads a--lot--faster.

[Cellular]

gretl is a great package for econometrics and time series analysis. It also has some simple tools for finding p-values and doing elementary t-tests etc. It has a very easy-to-use GUI as well as a command line interface, it is easy (from what i've heard) to extend with scripts, and it can send it's data to R.

It produces plots with Gnuplot, and you can get it's output in latex format.

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/

[tomasz2006]

gretl is a great package for econometrics and time series analysis. It also has some simple tools for finding p-values and doing elementary t-tests etc. It has a very easy-to-use GUI as well as a command line interface, it is easy (from what i've heard) to extend with scripts, and it can send it's data to R.

It produces plots with Gnuplot, and you can get it's output in latex format.

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/

I agree with the above, the main strength of gretl is its easy-to-use and friendly interface. Also, the export of output to LaTeX might be of interest.

I add a little ``installing gretl HOWTO'' which I wish had existed when I tried to install it. gretl has some `non-standard' dependencies but luckily the following command helps a lot (worked perfectly on Edgy Eft):

apt-get build-dep gretl

Then, download the source package from

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/

Decompress the archive and enter the new directory. Then, execute, one by one, the following:

./configure

make

sudo make install

Hopefully, everything goes smoothly and gretl is installed. In case you wonder, the above procedure did NOT work with the checkinstall. I hope this helps.

[vinx]

It is easier to compile Octave Workshop for Actave 2.9 on Fiesty, since the newest QT4-libs are included. You'll need to make one edit before compiling.

Install the following packages (and dependecies):

qt4-dev-tools
octave2.9-headers
libreadline5-dev

Just download the tar.gz from http://www.math.mcgill.ca/loisel/octave-workshop/ , unpack and add the following as line 11 to the file 'editwindow.cpp':

#include <assert.h>

Now it's time for a './configure' , which should give no errors.
now do a 'make'. If you did not make the edit to editwindow.cpp, it complains about 'assert' not being defined.

Few moments later you have a 3.4mb bunch of working code. Don't forget to install gnuplot and to start the workshop from the shell to see some usefull crash-output.

--
Vincent

[guano]

For thos interested in using the latest stable versions of GIS software (GRASS, GDAL, QGIS), use this repo:

deb http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu edgy multiverse
deb-src http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu edgy multiverse

or

deb http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu feisty multiverse
deb-src http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu feisty multiverse

the versions in the official repos are a bit outdated.

As for the Kile x Texmaker, Texmaker loads faster, but Kile has word completion (and tex commands too).

As Reference manager, I use JabRef. Is Java based and very good. I found a .deb somewhere...

If you go to http://www.getdeb.net, you can fin a tool called Extrema, for graphs creation. Sounds good.

[Schoappied]

Thanks, I think PSPP can not really compare to SPSS. Tell me if I'm wrong...
I will try R-project...

[garba]

engauge and gnuplot