Organization of Functions Distributed with Octave

Many of Octave's standard functions are distributed as function files. They are loosely organized by topic in subdirectories of octave-home/lib/octave/version/m to make it easier to find them.

The following is a list of all the function file subdirectories and the types of functions you will find there.

audio

Functions for playing and recording sounds.

control

Functions for design and simulation of automatic control systems.

elfun

Elementary functions.

general

Miscellaneous matrix manipulations like flipud, rot90, and triu as well as other basic functions, like ismatrix nargchk, etc.

image

Image processing tools. These functions require the X Window System.

io

Input-ouput functions.

linear-algebra

Functions for linear algebra.

miscellaneous

Functions that don't really belong anywhere else.

plot

A set of functions that implement the MATLAB-like plotting functions.

polynomial

Functions for manipulating polynomials.

set

Functions for creating and manipulating sets of unique values.

signal

Functions for signal processing applications.

specfun

Special functions.

special-matrix

Functions that create special matrix forms.

startup

Octave's system-wide startup file.

statistics

Statistical functions.

strings

Miscellaneous string-handling functions.

time

Functions related to time keeping.