Speaking of open source alternatives to Matlab, Ben Singer, as I recall, had been working on using the Psycho-Toolbox from octave. I don't know how far he got with that or what he is up to now but his current web page (first hit on google for "Ben Singer") is:
http://www.princeton.edu/~bdsinger/ and I'm sure he'd be happy to let you know what he knows about it, if you contacted him. HTH > Have you considered open source alternatives to Matlab such as >Scilab? I know nothing about their capabilities, but Google produced >2410 hits for "Matlab clones", the first of which >(http://www.dspguru.com/sw/opendsp/mathclo2.htm) seemed quite useful. > > hope this helps. spencer graves > >Christoph Lange wrote: > >Dear all! > >Although the Psycho-Toolbox for Matlab is free software, Matlab isn't. >I'm planning to do an experiment where it's essentail to travel to the >subjects, not let the subjects come to where the Matlab licences are >:-( > >So I need to use a free software for my experiment if I don't want to >by an extra Matlab licence (which I don't want to). > >Did anyone ever try to do presentation of visual stimuli (images, >practically, with a little bit of text in my case) with R? I looked >into the documentation of rgl, but what's lacking there is (as far as >I saw) the possibility to also read (unbuffered) keyboard input. > >So what I need is: > > 1. put images onto the (full!)screen (qick) > 2. read keyboard input > 3. write results (to an R structure, presumably) > >Any idea, suggestion? > > >Cheers, > Christoph. > > > ____________________ Ken Knoblauch Inserm U 371 Cerveau et Vision 18 avenue du Doyen Lepine 69675 Bron cedex France tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77 fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61 portable: 06 84 10 64 10 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
