Matlab

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1 Introduction
2 Videos
3 Install for Windows
- 3.1 Windows XP or Vista
- 3.2 Mac
4 Matlab exchange
5 Pages with Matlab
6 Implemented in Matlab
7 Data
8 Workaround memory errors in XP
9 MATLAB Digest
- 9.1 Links
10 Notes

[edit] Introduction

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/MATLAB#encyclopedia

Matlab is a commercial program that is purchased with an academic license at universities, but is otherwise quite expensive. "For a long time there was criticism that because MATLAB is a proprietary software (a term coined by advocates of the free software movement to describe computer software which is the legal property of one party) product of The MathWorks, users are subject to vendor lock-in Vendor lock-in (which makes a customer dependent on a vendor for Products and Service, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching barriers). Recently an additional tool called the MATLAB Builder under the Application Deployment tools section has been provided to deploy MATLAB functions as library files which can be used with .NET (.net is a generic top-level domain used on the Internet's Domain Name System. The .net gTLD is currently operated by VeriSign. Registrations are processed via accredited registrars and internationalized domain names are also accepted) or Java application building environment. But the drawback is that the computer where the application has to be deployed needs MCR (MATLAB Component Runtime) for the MATLAB files to function normally. MCR can be distributed freely with library files generated by the MATLAB compiler."^[1] (See a sample MatLab version 14 release for the Mac) and What libraries should I include when distributing my stand-alone application?

http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/extras/commands.html

http://www.mathworks.com/support/functions/alpha_list.html

[edit] Videos

http://www.mathworks.com/products/featured/videos/?s_cid=SA_Sol_ML_Video&ref=solutions

[edit] Install for Windows

http://www.nacs.uci.edu/rcs/INSTALL_HOWTOs/HOWTO_Install_Windows_Matlab_from_Network.html

[edit] Windows XP or Vista

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DO NOT click INSTALL MANAGER!!!
Paste (from email) into ascii file, save file, browse for file on your drive

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Installation key (from email)

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Takes 2 hours from home network with VPN for XP
After installation

To configure Real-Time Windows Target you must type rtwintgt -setup in a MATLAB command window.
You have installed xPC Target. Use the xPC Target Explorer GUI (type xpcexplr in the MATLAB Command Window) to correctly configure xPC Target with a valid compiler pathname. For further help, type doc xpcexplr.
Run mbuild -setup from MATLAB before using MATLAB Compiler or builder products. This command sets up the C/ C++ compiler to be used with MATLAB Compiler and builder products to create deployable applications/ components.

[edit] Mac

http://www.nacs.uci.edu/rcs/INSTALL_HOWTOs/HOWTO_Install_Macintosh_Matlab_from_Network.html
downloads in 1 hour

[edit] Matlab exchange

Matlab exchange - shared software

Use Help - Product help - Lacks Matlab exchange programs however

[edit] Pages with Matlab

Haifeng Du

Aaron Clauset

Scott D. White

[edit] Implemented in Matlab

McFadden's conditional logit

Matlab implementation

Aaron Clauset programs for Maximal Likelihood Estimation

Assortative networks

[edit] Data

[edit] Workaround memory errors in XP

This “Matlab won’t start’ error is currently under investigation. The current workaround is to set an environment variable that will bypass the error. Please try the following to start MATLAB:

1) Go to the Start menu to Control Panel. 2) Double click on "System" and go to the Advanced tab (for Vista go to "System and Maintenance" to "System" to "Advanced System Settings". 3) Click the Environment Variables button.

4) Click "New" under either option (System or User variables) to create a new variable. The variable name will be MATLAB_RESERVE_LO. The variable value will be the number 0 (zero). Press OK to save the changes.

EXPLANATION: Setting MATLAB_RESERVE_LO=0 tells MATLAB to bypass the functionality introduced in R2007b (for Windows only) that tries to reserve the largest available contiguous space for MATLAB arrays. This process guarantees that at least 256MB is left available for use by Java for the Heap and PermGen spaces. It appears that Windows is either loading a DLL or doing a malloc somewhere in this 256MB space, so that when Java tries to reserve the Heap and PermGen address space, it fails, since both the Heap and PermGen spaces must be contiguous. If MATLAB_RESERVE_LO is set to 0, the reserve is for a fixed amount of space, not the largest available space.

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http://www.mathworks.com/contact_TS.html

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