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octave

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    1. Description
    2. Author
    3. Requirements
    4. Download
    5. Requirements
    6. Documentation
      1. Usage
    7. Example
    8. Limitations
    9. Changelog
    10. License

Description

Octave extension for Chicken and Gambit Scheme.

Author

Pierre-Alexandre Fournier

Requirements

None

Download

octave.egg

Requirements

GNU/Octave and gnuplot have to be installed.

With Chicken Scheme, the posix extension is needed:

 (use posix)

Documentation

The octave egg provides a simple interface for GNU/Octave use in Chicken and Gambit Scheme systems. The egg is meant to be used as a graph utility using the GNU/Octave interface to gnuplot. Comments and contributions are welcomed.

NEW! Version 0.4 now supports error bars plots (octave:errorbar).

NEW! Version 0.3 now supports over 50 file formats to save your graphs, including postscript, png, gif, and jpeg.

Here are some screenshots.

Download scheme code directly (version 0.4): octave.scm

tarball for Gambit (version 0.4): gambit-octave-0.4.tar.gz

Usage

To start:

 (octave:start)

To stop:

 (octave:stop)

Example

(use posix octave)

(octave:start)
(octave:version)
(octave:plot '(1 2 3) '(3 2 1))
(octave:title "Simple plot")
(octave:xlabel "xbar")
(octave:ylabel "ybar")
(octave:grid "on")
(octave:grid "off")
(octave:semilogx '(1 2 3) '(3 2 1))
(octave:title "SemilogX")
(octave:semilogy '(1 2 3) '(3 2 1))
(octave:title "SemilogY")
(octave:figure)
(octave:loglog '(1 1.5 211.8) '(2 2.3 21.0)  '(1 1.5 222.3) '(1.2 2.4 2222.0))
(octave:figure)
(octave:polar (iota 50) (iota 50))
(octave:title "Rose")
octave:supported-file-types ;;; to see supported file formats
(octave:save-plot-to "png" "rose.png")
(octave:figure)
(octave:title "Bar")
(octave:bar (iota 5) (iota 5))
(octave:figure)
(octave:title "Mesh 3D")
(octave:mesh (list (iota 4) (iota 4 2)))
(octave:figure)
(octave:title "ImageSC")
(octave:imagesc (list (iota 4) (iota 4 2)))
(octave:figure)
(octave:title "Mesh XYZ")
(octave:mesh-xyz (iota 3) (iota 2) (list (iota 3) (iota 3)))
(octave:save-plot-to "postscript" "foo.ps")
(octave:figure)
(octave:title "Y Error bars")
(octave:errorbar (list 1.1 2.1 3.1 4.1) (list 1.1 2.1 3.1 4.1) (list 2 3 4 3))
(octave:figure)
(octave:title "Boxes Error bars")
(octave:errorbar (list 1 2 3 4) (list 2 3 2 3) (list .1 .2 .2 .1) (list .1 .2 .2 .2) (list .2 .1 .2 .2) (list .4 .3 .2 .1) "'#~>'")
(octave:stop)

Limitations

This simple GNU/Octave interface has some limitations:

Changelog

License

The octave egg is released under the BSD license.