FreeMat Portable

FreeMat Portable is open-source numerical computing environment that bundles features similar to those found in MATLAB and GNU Octave. The tool comes with support for C, C++ and Fortran code, distributed algorithm, as well as plotting and visualization capabilities.

FreeMat Portable is designed as the portable counterpart of FreeMat. You can run the utility on your system by simply opening the EXE file. Uninstalling the program can be done by deleting the files that you have grabbed from the Internet.

It doesn’t store entries in your Windows registry and write configuration data in your computer, so you can run it without administrative privileges. Copying it on a USB flash drive is also possible.

FreeMat Portable delivers a clean GUI that is made up of several floating panels which can be moved to the desired position in the working environment. This means that you are actually free to alter the layout according to your preferences.

You can show, hide or move the File Browser, History, Variable and Debug panels, as well as import data from M or plain text file format. The console where you are allowed to input information can be cleared with just one click, and you may adjust the font and size of the text, and scrollback size.

You can use the built-in editor in order to generate M or plain text files, work on different documents at the same time thanks to the multi-tabbed layout, perform basic editing tasks (cut, copy, paste, delete), undo or redo your actions, as well as alter the text in terms of font, highlighting and indentation options.

You are allowed to undo or redo your actions, make use of keyboard shortcuts for faster operations, find and replace data, comment or uncomment a region, increase or decrease the indent, and carry out several debugging processes, such as execute current buffer or selection, step over or into, set/clear debugging, and stop the debugging mode. Plus, you may clear the history, work with a path tool and save the transcript.

The application offers support for N-dimension array manipulation, 8-,16- and 32-bit integer types (signed and unsigned), 32- and 64-bit floating point types, and 64- and 128-bit complex types, built-in arithmetic options for manipulation of all supported data types, linear system of equations via divide operators, 2D plotting and image display, 3D plotting and visualization via OpenGL.

To sum it up, FreeMat Portable comes with a comprehensive suite of features for helping you carry out operations in a matrix-oriented development environment, and is suitable especially for power users.