Mathematica software

[Eric Dunbar]

On 1/15/06, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
>
> On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Charles Malespin wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I am learning mathematica in school right now and I want to
> > know if there is a similar program for ubuntu that I can use on my box at
> > home.  How different are they?  I would like somthing very similar
> > so Im not learning two differnt programs to do the same thing.  Thanks,
> > Charles
>
> Probably the closest to Mathematica is scilab, which is available as
> a Ubuntu package.  I don't know how similar they are.
>
> Wolfram makes a version of Mathematica for Linux.  I don't believe it
> is available as a .deb package, however one could probably convert it
> with alien.  There is a student version which is undoubtedly less
> expensive than the professional version, but definitely not free (as
> in speech or beer).

Another option is r (as in the letter r):

<http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=r&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>
<http://www.r-project.org/>

It's an open source recreation of s, a data analysis and plotting
language developed (and popularised) by Bell labs.

Eric.