free MATLAB environment

Question

I\'m learning the MATLAB language and would like to have some kind of free environment to experiment with. The MATLAB environment provided by MathWorks is commercial. There

Answer 1

Look into these:

• Scilab
• Octave
• Sage

Read this blog entry from Ryan Morlok for more info on open source Matlab alternatives.

I'm a big fan of R, but it's not a substitute for Matlab... it's an alternative. There's a big difference!