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One thing Sage needs to do is to make installation easier. Make a PPA for Ubuntu, a repo for RPM packages, and setups for Windows and OS X. Then people will st
by moondowner 16y ago
One thing Sage needs to do is to make installation easier. Make a PPA for Ubuntu, a repo for RPM packages, and setups for Windows and OS X.
Then people will start talking more about Sage. It's a great package, but the road to getting it is bumpy.
For those who don't know what Sage is, think of it as an Open Source alternative to Wolfram Mathematica.
I also see comments about R. For me, the best way to code in R is to use RKWard. It's maybe the best frontend for R. Feel free to check it out..
- tomrod 16y agoSage install for Ubuntu is very straightforward--they even provide the command to unpack. If you've programmed in Python, or even better Fortran or C, the installation is mostly trivial. Nontrivial is compiling from source, however :-). Sage does more than Mathematica, as I understand it. It can be used as a replacement for Matlab, R, etc. I got informed of it by friend who is an applied mathematician by day and a .Net guru by night. Wikipedia has a decent writeup at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagemath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagemath
- kcrisman 16y agoCompiling from source should be just downloading source, unpacking, and typing `make`, at least on most popular Linux distros and OS X.