On 20/11/2007, Alexander Volovics <awol@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:20:26PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Thank. I looked at R (and specifivally RKWard for KDE) and I see that > > it is _not_ appropriate. R can make graphs, but it does not perform > > any of the functions that I mentioned. More accurately, it may allow > > me to write a program with those functions, but I am looking for a > > graphics calculator, not a software language in which graphics > > calculators can be written. > > R is a collection of (statistical) data analysis tools. > Strictly speaking it cannot perform the functions you mention. > Yet I have been able to do most of the things you want using > tools contained in R and in R packages (you can load R packages > from the command line in R). And I HATE programming in any form! > But I would have to write a small manual for you :) > I only mentioned R because you can easily make excellent graphs with it. > > As has already been mentioned you can use computer algebra > symbolic computation packages like maxima. yacas and octave. > > Maxima (in combination with for example the gui wxmaxima) > will do most of what you want and uses gnuplot. > (It is Lisp oriented). > > Yacas is also good AND can be used in combination with R > and from within R if you load the R package 'Ryacas'. > Then you can also use the excellent R graphics facilities. > (see for example: http://cran-mirror.cs.uu.nl/ for Ryacas) > > Maxima, octave and yacas have Fedora packages. > > Also worth looking into are the combinations: > Euler+Yacas (Windows only) > Euler+Maxima > > Alexander Thanks, I'll look into Yacas and Euler. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
