Hello Carne, Very happy for your welcome message! I used Matlab before, so I understand what Octave is meant to be, and how big Octave can be.
For example, my friends are trying to use Matlab to plot the capital market line in financial portfolio analysis theory. And they asked how to complete the following code in Matlab: NumPorts = 10000; frontcon(ExpReturn, ExpCovariance, NumPorts); RisklessRate = 0.043274 BorrowRate = NaN RiskAversion = [] portalloc (PortRisk, PortReturn, PortWts, RisklessRate, BorrowRate, RiskAversion); Then I think maybe I can then study how to do this problem in Octave ... and eventually maybe I can not only use Octave, and also contribute to Octave's development and improvement. Next I will start with installing/building/using Octave (maybe some toolboxes only) and would much appreciate it if you or others could give suggestions. Also, which Octave-related mailing lists should I attend? Thanks. Hong Yu -----Original Message----- From: Carnë Draug Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:20 PM To: Hong Yu Cc: octave-...@lists.sf.net Subject: Re: [OctDev] How to be developer of Octave project Hi Hong Welcome to the octave community. For the GNU octave project you should see http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ This is octave-forge. They're related but are not the same. GNU octave is the octave core program. Octave-Forge is a collection of packages for GNU Octave that extend it's "ablities" (toolboxes or modules). If you want to contribute new functions for the existing packages then this is the right place. Basically as you write functions that you need just send it to us to add to the packages so the rest of the community can gain from it. If you plan on doing it several times, after you submit the first one and it's reviewed, one of the project admin will add you so you have commit access to the repository. Can't say exactly if octave is the right tool for your needs as you didn't specify exactly what you need to do. Carnë Draug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
