Octave support?

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Hi,

Great tool - will for sure use it!

Would you consider implementing support of Octave giving access to Mathlab like scripts?

Best regards,
Mads

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Although Octave looks like a nice fit I would put this not all that close to the top on our todo list of things. Mostly because it's a c++ library, which causes all sorts of problems. Right now we are working on a better integration of R, which is already painful enough.
But then again, we made KNIME open source to allow others to create their own extensions - feel free to hop in :-)

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Hi Mads,

Have you used R or S-Plus before? They are somewhat similar to Matlab. Check out R if you haven't had a chance before. It's a strong and mature open source project.

berthold wrote:
...Right now we are working on a better integration of R, which is already painful enough...

but R is worth it, right? :wink:

Regards,

Jay

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Quote:

but R is worth it, right? Wink

Well, R is a bit like Excel - I only know .5% of it's functions and use .2% :-)

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With almost 1000 contributed packages on top of the base ones it should be easy :shock:

It has it's charms and it's...umm...open source idiosyncrasies :D

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We'll consider contributing something like the R-server interface.

We have already developed an "Octave executor" which allows execution of Octave scripts through a webservice.

/Mads