in reply to Matlab, Perl, and Python

Depending on your needs, look at PDL.

Also, I can't say enough positive about R. It is free and will be fairly easy to pick up after using Matlab. The user community is FANTASTIC, an important aspect of anyone on a budget and in a rush. It is not at all unusual to write to the R-help email list (about 2000 posts/month) and get several replies within minutes. I work next to a Matlab user of many years and have the option of using it anytime I like, but largely because of its open-source nature and user community, I continue to use R. As for functionality, it lacks nothing next to Matlab and does have some nice features for working with perl (RSperl, Statistics::R). Finally, it is available as a binary for Windows.

Just my biased 2-cents worth.

Sean

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Re^2: Matlab, Perl, and Python
by DrGuy (Acolyte) on Jan 04, 2006 at 18:32 UTC

    Thanks for the input. :)

    I have used R in the past, but it was part of a spatial statistics course which many of us in the class wanted to forget about (don't ask, the professor was nice, but didn't know how to teach), but I will download the binary. Actually what I am doing is signal processing and modeling of ground-penetrating radar data as well as estimation/ modeling of dielectric properties and so on. I'll definitely check Octave out now that I installed the full complement of Cygwin on my machine.

    Thanks,
    Dr. Guy

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