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Numerical Languages:

R & Octave

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Reading List

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CRAN: http://cran.us.r-project.org/

R-bloggers: http://www.r-bloggers.com/

Assorted Books (120+, from intro to specific topics): http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html

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

Octave-Forge: http://octave.sourceforge.net/

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Some Tools

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R itself: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html

RStudio: http://www.rstudio.com/

R in Eclipse: http://www.walware.de/goto/statet

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

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Rhetorical Challenge

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using C, plot a parameter study of

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f(t) = exp(a*t)

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Basic Interface with R

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  • terminal console
  • gui console
  • running scripts
  • Integrated Development Environment: RStudio

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Typical R application

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  1. read some data
  2. re-organize the data
  3. analyze
  4. plot results

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R interlude

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Octave

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Typical Octave application

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  • read some data
  • re-organize the data
  • analyze
  • plot results

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...look familiar?