- Rlab
Rlab is an interactive, interpreted
numerical computation program and its coreprogramming language , written byIan Searle . Rlab (the language) is very high level and is intended to provide fast prototyping and program development, as well as easy data-visualization, and processing.Rlab was not designed as a clone of
MATLAB . However, as Rlab (the program) is intended to provide a good experimental environment (or laboratory) in which to do matrix math, the programming language possesses similar operators and concepts and could be called "MATLAB-like".Rlab borrows some of the best features of the MATLAB language but provides them through a different
syntax that has been modified in order to be more expressive while reducing ambiguity. The variable scoping rules facilitate the creation of larger programs and re-usable program libraries. A heterogeneousassociative array datatype has been added to allow users to create and operate on arbitrary data structures. The fundamental data type is the densefloating point matrix (either real or complex), though string and sparse numerical matrices (both real and complex) are also provided.Rlab 2.1 is no longer under active development. Binary versions are available for
Linux and for Windows, andsource code is available under the GPL.Rlab 2.2 has been released as a part of the project "rlabplus" by
Marijan Koštrun .External links
* [http://rlab.sourceforge.net/ The Rlab home page]
* [http://rlabplus.sourceforge.net/ The RlabPlus home page]
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