Rlab2 Reference Manual

Ian Searle, ians@eskimo.com

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Background
• 1.2 Installation
• 1.3 Getting Started
• 1.4 Command Line Options and Environment
• 1.5 Migrating From Rlab1 to Rlab2
• 1.6 Document reproduction and errors
• 1.7 Acknowledgments

2. Tutorial

• 2.1 Fundamental Operations
• 2.2 Computing the Mean
• 2.3 Computing the Mean Again
• 2.4 Fitting a Curve

3. Objects and Data

• 3.1 Numeric
• 3.2 String
• 3.3 List
• 3.4 Function

4. Program Control Flow

• 4.1 If Statement
• 4.2 While Statement
• 4.3 For Statement
• 4.4 Break Statement
• 4.5 Continue Statement

5. Input and Output

• 5.1 File-Handles
• 5.2 Programs
• 5.3 Data

6. User Functions

• 6.1 Function Syntax
• 6.2 Using Functions
• 6.3 Function Arguments
• 6.4 Function Variable Scoping Rules
• 6.5 Function Recursion
• 6.6 Loading Functions and Function Dependencies
• 6.7 Static Variables
• 6.8 Help for User Functions

7. Builtin Functions

• 7.1 abs
• 7.2 acos
• 7.3 all
• 7.4 any
• 7.5 asin
• 7.6 atan
• 7.7 atan2
• 7.8 backsub
• 7.9 balance
• 7.10 ceil
• 7.11 chol
• 7.12 class
• 7.13 clear
• 7.14 close
• 7.15 conj
• 7.16 cos
• 7.17 cumprod
• 7.18 cumsum
• 7.19 det
• 7.20 diag
• 7.21 diary
• 7.22 dlopen
• 7.23 eig
• 7.24 entinfo
• 7.25 error
• 7.26 eval
• 7.27 exist
• 7.28 exp
• 7.29 factor
• 7.30 fft
• 7.31 filter
• 7.32 find
• 7.33 finite
• 7.34 floor
• 7.35 format
• 7.36 fprintf
• 7.37 fread
• 7.38 frexp
• 7.39 fseek
• 7.40 full
• 7.41 fwrite
• 7.42 getenv
• 7.43 getline
• 7.44 help
• 7.45 hess
• 7.46 ifft
• 7.47 imag
• 7.48 inf
• 7.49 int
• 7.50 isinf
• 7.51 isnan
• 7.52 issymm
• 7.53 ldexp
• 7.54 length
• 7.55 load
• 7.56 log
• 7.57 log10
• 7.58 logb
• 7.59 max
• 7.60 maxi
• 7.61 members
• 7.62 min
• 7.63 mini
• 7.64 mnorm
• 7.65 mod
• 7.66 nan
• 7.67 nlleastsq
• 7.68 ode
• 7.69 ones
• 7.70 open
• 7.71 printf
• 7.72 prod
• 7.73 putenv
• 7.74 qr
• 7.75 quit
• 7.76 rand
• 7.77 rcond
• 7.78 read
• 7.79 read_ascii
• 7.80 readm
• 7.81 require
• 7.82 reshape
• 7.83 rfile
• 7.84 round
• 7.85 schur
• 7.86 sign
• 7.87 trig
• 7.88 size
• 7.89 sizeof
• 7.90 sleep
• 7.91 solve
• 7.92 sort
• 7.93 sparse
• 7.94 spconvert
• 7.95 spfactor
• 7.96 sprintf
• 7.97 spsolve
• 7.98 spwrite
• 7.99 sqrt
• 7.100 srand
• 7.101 strsplt
• 7.102 strtod
• 7.103 strtol
• 7.104 sum
• 7.105 svd
• 7.106 sylv
• 7.107 system
• 7.108 trig
• 7.109 tic
• 7.110 tmpnam
• 7.111 toc
• 7.112 type
• 7.113 vpnorm
• 7.114 write_ascii
• 7.115 writem
• 7.116 zeros

8. Programmer's Reference

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Interpreter Operation
• 8.3 Writing Builtin Functions

9. Programmer's Interface

• 9.1 bltin_get_ent
• 9.2 ent_Clean
• 9.3 class_double
• 9.4 class_char_pointer
• 9.5 class_matrix_real
• 9.6 get_file_ds
• 9.7 close_file_ds