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• Scilab
  • Scilab keywords
    • ans — answer
    • backslash — left matrix division.
    • brackets — ([,]) left and right brackets
    • case — keyword used in select
    • colon — (:) colon operator
    • comma — (,) column, instruction, argument separator
    • comments — comments
    • comparison — comparison, relational operators
    • do — language keyword for loops
    • dot — (.) symbol
    • else — keyword in if-then-else
    • elseif — keyword in if-then-else
    • empty — ([]) empty matrix
    • end — end keyword
    • equal — (=) assignment , comparison, equal sign
    • for — language keyword for loops
    • global — Define global variable
    • hat — (^) exponentiation
    • if — conditional execution
    • left — ([) left bracket
    • less — (<) greater than comparison
    • minus — (-) substraction operator, sign changes
    • not — (~) logical not
    • parents — ( ) left and right parenthesis
    • percent — (%) special character
    • plus — (+) addition operator
    • power — power operation (^,.^)
    • quote — (') transpose operator, string delimiter
    • return — return or resume execution and copy some local variables
    • select — select keyword
    • semicolon — ending expression and row separator
    • slash — (/) right division and feed back
    • star — (*) multiplication operator
    • then — keyword in if-then-else
    • tilda — (~) logical not
    • try — beginning of catch block in try-catch control instruction
    • while — while keyword
  • TMPDIR — temporary directory path
  • abort — interrupt evaluation.
  • add_demo — Add an entry in the demos list
  • argn — Returns the number of input/output arguments in a function call
  • banner — show scilab banner (Windows)
  • boolean — Scilab Objects, boolean variables and operators & | ~
  • break — keyword to interrupt loops
  • clear — kills variables
  • clearfun — remove primitive.
  • clearglobal — kills global variables
  • comp — scilab function compilation
  • continue — keyword to pass control to the next iteration of a loop
  • debug — debugging level
  • delbpt — delete breakpoints
  • dispbpt — display breakpoints
  • edit — function editing
  • errcatch — error trapping
  • errclear — error clearing
  • error — error messages
  • error_table — table of error messages
  • exists — checks variable existence
  • exit — Ends the current Scilab session
  • external — Scilab Object, external function or routine
  • extraction — matrix and list entry extraction
  • format — number printing and display format
  • funcprot — switch scilab functions protection mode
  • funptr — coding of primitives ( wizard stuff )
  • getdebuginfo — get information about Scilab to debug
  • getmd5 — get md5 checksum
  • getmemory — returns free and total system memory
  • getmodules — returns list of modules installed in Scilab
  • getos — return Operating System name and version
  • getscilabmode — returns scilab mode
  • getshell — returns current command interpreter.
  • getvariablesonstack — get variable names on stack of scilab
  • getversion — get scilab and modules version information
  • gstacksize — set/get scilab global stack size
  • ieee — set floating point exception mode
  • insertion — partial variable assignation
  • intppty — set interface argument passing properties
  • inv_coeff — build a polynomial matrix from its coefficients
  • iserror — error occurence test
  • isglobal — check if a variable is global
  • lasterror — get last recorded error message
  • macr2lst — function to list conversion
  • macr2tree — function to tree conversion
  • matrices — Scilab object, matrices in Scilab
  • matrix — reshape a vector or a matrix to a different size matrix
  • mode — select a mode in exec file
  • mtlb_mode — switch Matlab like operations
  • names — scilab names syntax
  • newfun — add a name in the table of functions
  • null — delete an element in a list
  • pause — pause mode, invoke keyboard
  • perl — Call Perl script using appropriate operating system executable
  • poly — polynomial definition
  • predef — variable protection
  • quit — Terminates Scilab or decreases the pause level
  • rational — Scilab objects, rational in Scilab
  • readgateway — get primitives list of a module
  • resume — return or resume execution and copy some local variables
  • sciargs — scilab command line arguments
  • scilab — Main script to start Scilab and miscellaneous tools (GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X)
  • setbpt — set breakpoints
  • stacksize — set scilab stack size
  • startup — startup file
  • symbols — scilab operator names
  • testmatrix — generate special matrices, such as Hilbert, Franck
  • type — Returns the type of a variable
  • typename — associates a name to variable type
  • user — interfacing a Fortran or C routine
  • varn — symbolic variable of a polynomial
  • ver — Version information for Scilab
  • warning — warning messages
  • what — list the Scilab primitives
  • where — get current instruction calling tree
  • whereami — display current instruction calling tree
  • who — listing of variables
  • who_user — listing of user's variables
  • whos — listing of variables in long form
  • with_atlas — Checks if Scilab has been built with Atlas Library
  • with_javasci — Checks if Scilab has been built with the java interface
  • with_macros_source — Checks if macros source are installed
  • with_module — Checks if a Scilab module is installed
  • with_pvm — Checks if Scilab has been built with the "Parallel Virtual Machine" interface
  • with_texmacs — Checks if Scilab has been called by texmacs
  • with_tk — Checks if Scilab has been built with TCL/TK
• Differential Equations, Integration
  • bvode — Simplified call to bvode
  • dae — Differential algebraic equations solver
  • daeoptions — set options for dae solver
  • dasrt — DAE solver with zero crossing
  • dassl — differential algebraic equation
  • feval — multiple evaluation
  • impl — differential algebraic equation
  • int2d — definite 2D integral by quadrature and cubature method
  • int3d — definite 3D integral by quadrature and cubature method
  • intc — Cauchy integral
  • integrate — integration of an expression by quadrature
  • intg — definite integral
  • intl — Cauchy integral
  • ode — ordinary differential equation solver
  • ode_discrete — ordinary differential equation solver, discrete time simulation
  • ode_optional_output — ode solvers optional outputs description
  • ode_root — ordinary differential equation solver with root finding
  • odedc — discrete/continuous ode solver
  • odeoptions — set options for ode solvers
• Elementary Functions
  • Bitwise operations
    • bitand — bitwise AND
    • bitcmp — bitwise complement
    • bitget — bit at specified position
    • bitor — bitwise OR
    • bitset — set bit at specified position
    • bitxor — bitwise XOR
  • Discrete mathematics
    • binomial — binomial distribution probabilities
    • factor — factor function
    • factorial — The factorial function
    • perms — all permutations of vector components
    • primes — primes function
    • rat — Floating point rational approximation
  • Elementary matrices
    • diag — diagonal including or extracting
    • eye — identity matrix
    • ind2sub — linear index to matrix subscript values
    • linspace — linearly spaced vector
    • logspace — logarithmically spaced vector
    • meshgrid — create matrices or 3-D arrays
    • ndgrid — arrays for multidimensional function evaluation on grid
    • ones — matrix made of ones
    • rand — random number generator
    • sub2ind — matrix subscript values to linear index
    • zeros — matrix made of zeros
  • Floating point
    • ceil — rounding up
    • double — conversion from integer to double precision representation
    • fix — rounding towards zero
    • floor — rounding down
    • frexp — dissect floating-point numbers into base 2 exponent and mantissa
    • int — integer part
    • isinf — check for infinite entries
    • isnan — check for "Not a Number" entries
    • nearfloat — get previous or next floating-point number
    • nextpow2 — next higher power of 2.
    • number_properties — determine floating-point parameters
    • round — rounding
  • Integer representation
    • base2dec — conversion from base b representation to integers
    • bin2dec — integer corresponding to a binary form
    • dec2bin — binary representation
    • dec2hex — hexadecimal representation of integers
    • dec2oct — octal representation of integers
    • hex2dec — conversion from hexadecimal representation to integers
    • oct2dec — conversion from octal representation to integers
  • Matrix manipulation
    • flipdim — flip x components along a given dimension
    • permute — permute the dimensions of an array
    • repmat — Replicate and tile an array
    • resize_matrix — create a new matrix with a different size
  • Matrix operations
    • cumprod — cumulative product of array elements
    • cumsum — cumulative sum of array elements
    • kron — Kronecker product (.*.)
    • prod — product of array elements
    • sum — sum of array elements
    • tril — lower triangular part of matrix
    • triu — upper triangle
  • Search and sort
    • dsearch — search in ordered sets
    • gsort — sorting by quick sort agorithm
    • lex_sort — lexicographic matrix rows sorting
    • vectorfind — finds in a matrix rows or columns matching a vector
  • Set operations
    • intersect — returns the vector of common values of two vectors
    • setdiff — returns components of a vector which do not belong to another one
    • union — extract union components of a vector
    • unique — extract unique components of a vector or matrices
  • Signal processing
    • bloc2exp — block-diagram to symbolic expression
    • bloc2ss — block-diagram to state-space conversion
    • pen2ea — pencil to E,A conversion
    • ssrand — random system generator
    • sysconv — system conversion
    • sysdiag — block diagonal system connection
    • syslin — linear system definition
    • trfmod — poles and zeros display
  • Symbolic
    • solve — symbolic linear system solver
    • trianfml — symbolic triangularization
    • trisolve — symbolic linear system solver
  • Trigonometry
    • acos — element wise cosine inverse
    • acosd — element wise cosine inverse, result in degree.
    • acosh — hyperbolic cosine inverse
    • acoshm — matrix hyperbolic inverse cosine
    • acosm — matrix wise cosine inverse
    • acot — computes the element-wise inverse cotangeant of the argument.
    • acotd — computes the element-wise inverse cotangeant of the argument result in degree.
    • acoth — element wise hyperbolic cotangeant inverse.
    • acsc — computes the element-wise inverse cosecant of the argument.
    • acscd — computes the element-wise inverse cosecant of the argument, results in degree.
    • acsch — computes the element-wise inverse hyperbolic cosecant of the argument.
    • asec — computes the element-wise inverse secant of the argument.
    • asecd — computes the element-wise inverse secant of the argument, results in degree.
    • asech — computes the element-wise inverse hyperbolic secant of the argument.
    • asin — sine inverse
    • asind — sine inverse, results in degree
    • asinh — hyperbolic sine inverse
    • asinhm — matrix hyperbolic inverse sine
    • asinm — matrix wise sine inverse
    • atan — 2-quadrant and 4-quadrant inverse tangent
    • atand — 2-quadrant and 4-quadrant element-wise inverse tangent, result in degree.
    • atanh — hyperbolic tangent inverse
    • atanhm — matrix hyperbolic tangent inverse
    • atanm — square matrix tangent inverse
    • conj — conjugate
    • cos — cosine function
    • cosd — element-wise cosine function, argument in degree
    • cosh — hyperbolic cosine
    • coshm — matrix hyperbolic cosine
    • cosm — matrix cosine function
    • cotd — cotangent
    • cotg — cotangent
    • coth — hyperbolic cotangent
    • cothm — matrix hyperbolic cotangent
    • csc — Computes the element-wise cosecant of the argument.
    • cscd — Computes the element-wise cosecant of the argument given in degree.
    • csch — Computes the element-wise hyperbolic cosecant of the argument.
    • csgn — Returns the sign of a vector of real of complex values.
    • sec — Compute the element-wise secant of the argument.
    • secd — Compute the element-wise secant of the argument given in degree.
    • sech — Compute the element-wise hyperbolic secant of the argument.
    • sin — sine function
    • sinc — sinc function
    • sind — sine function, argument in degree.
    • sinh — hyperbolic sine
    • sinhm — matrix hyperbolic sine
    • sinm — matrix sine function
    • tan — tangent
    • tand — tangent, argument in degree.
    • tanh — hyperbolic tangent
    • tanhm — matrix hyperbolic tangent
    • tanm — matrix tangent
  • abs — absolute value, magnitude
  • amell — Jacobi's am function
  • and — logical and of the elements of an array
  • and_op — logical and operator
  • cat — concatenate several arrays
  • cell2mat — convert a cell array into a matrix
  • cellstr — convert strings vector (or strings matrix) into a cell of strings
  • char — char function
  • delip — complete and incomplete elliptic integral of first kind
  • diff — Difference and discrete derivative
  • exp — element-wise exponential
  • imag — imaginary part
  • imult — multiplication by i the imaginary unitary
  • inttrap — integration of experimental data by trapezoidal interpolation
  • isdef — checks variable existence
  • isempty — check if a variable is an empty matrix or an empty list
  • isequal — objects comparison
  • isequalbitwise — bitwise comparison of variables
  • isreal — check if a variable as real or complex entries
  • isvector — check if a variable is a vector
  • log — natural logarithm
  • log10 — logarithm
  • log1p — computes with accuracy the natural logarithm of its argument added by one
  • log2 — base 2 logarithm
  • logm — square matrix logarithm
  • lstsize — list, tlist, mlist numbers of entries
  • max — maximum
  • min — minimum
  • modulo — positive arithmetic remainder modulo m
  • ndims — number of dimensions of an array
  • norm — matrix norms
  • or — logical or of the elements of an array
  • or_op — logical or operator
  • pertrans — pertranspose
  • real — real part
  • sign — sign function
  • signm — matrix sign function
  • size — size of objects
  • sqrt — square root
  • sqrtm — matrix square root
  • squarewave — generates a square wave with period 2*%pi
  • toeplitz — toeplitz matrix
  • typeof — object type
• Linear Algebra
  • aff2ab — linear (affine) function to A,b conversion
  • balanc — matrix or pencil balancing
  • bdiag — block diagonalization, generalized eigenvectors
  • chfact — sparse Cholesky factorization
  • chol — Cholesky factorization
  • chsolve — sparse Cholesky solver
  • classmarkov — recurrent and transient classes of Markov matrix
  • cmb_lin — symbolic linear combination
  • coff — resolvent (cofactor method)
  • colcomp — column compression, kernel, nullspace
  • companion — companion matrix
  • cond — condition number
  • det — determinant
  • eigenmarkov — normalized left and right Markov eigenvectors
  • ereduc — computes matrix column echelon form by qz transformations
  • expm — square matrix exponential
  • fstair — computes pencil column echelon form by qz transformations
  • fullrf — full rank factorization
  • fullrfk — full rank factorization of A^k
  • genmarkov — generates random markov matrix with recurrent and transient classes
  • givens — Givens transformation
  • glever — inverse of matrix pencil
  • gschur — generalized Schur form (obsolete).
  • gspec — eigenvalues of matrix pencil (obsolete)
  • hess — Hessenberg form
  • householder — Householder orthogonal reflexion matrix
  • im_inv — inverse image
  • inv — matrix inverse
  • kernel — kernel, nullspace
  • kroneck — Kronecker form of matrix pencil
  • linsolve — linear equation solver
  • lsq — linear least square problems.
  • lu — LU factorization with pivoting
  • lyap — Lyapunov equation
  • nlev — Leverrier's algorithm
  • orth — orthogonal basis
  • pbig — eigen-projection
  • pencan — canonical form of matrix pencil
  • penlaur — Laurent coefficients of matrix pencil
  • pinv — pseudoinverse
  • polar — polar form
  • proj — projection
  • projspec — spectral operators
  • psmall — spectral projection
  • qr — QR decomposition
  • quaskro — quasi-Kronecker form
  • randpencil — random pencil
  • range — range (span) of A^k
  • rank — rank
  • rankqr — rank revealing QR factorization
  • rcond — inverse condition number
  • rowcomp — row compression, range
  • rowshuff — shuffle algorithm
  • rref — computes matrix row echelon form by lu transformations
  • schur — [ordered] Schur decomposition of matrix and pencils
  • spaninter — subspace intersection
  • spanplus — sum of subspaces
  • spantwo — sum and intersection of subspaces
  • spec — eigenvalues of matrices and pencils
  • sqroot — W*W' hermitian factorization
  • squeeze — squeeze
  • sva — singular value approximation
  • svd — singular value decomposition
  • sylv — Sylvester equation.
  • trace — trace
• Interpolation
  • bsplin3val — 3d spline arbitrary derivative evaluation function
  • cshep2d — bidimensional cubic shepard (scattered) interpolation
  • eval_cshep2d — bidimensional cubic shepard interpolation evaluation
  • interp — cubic spline evaluation function
  • interp1 — one_dimension interpolation function
  • interp2d — bicubic spline (2d) evaluation function
  • interp3d — 3d spline evaluation function
  • interpln — linear interpolation
  • intsplin — integration of experimental data by spline interpolation
  • linear_interpn — n dimensional linear interpolation
  • lsq_splin — weighted least squares cubic spline fitting
  • smooth — smoothing by spline functions
  • splin — cubic spline interpolation
  • splin2d — bicubic spline gridded 2d interpolation
  • splin3d — spline gridded 3d interpolation
• CACSD
  • abcd — state-space matrices
  • abinv — AB invariant subspace
  • arhnk — Hankel norm approximant
  • arl2 — SISO model realization by L2 transfer approximation
  • arma — Scilab arma library
  • arma2p — extract polynomial matrices from ar representation
  • armac — Scilab description of an armax process
  • armax — armax identification
  • armax1 — armax identification
  • arsimul — armax simulation
  • augment — augmented plant
  • balreal — balanced realization
  • bilin — general bilinear transform
  • black — Black-Nichols diagram of a linear dynamical system
  • bode — Bode plot
  • bstap — hankel approximant
  • cainv — Dual of abinv
  • calfrq — frequency response discretization
  • canon — canonical controllable form
  • ccontrg — central H-infinity controller
  • chart — Nichols chart
  • cls2dls — bilinear transform
  • colinout — inner-outer factorization
  • colregul — removing poles and zeros at infinity
  • cont_frm — transfer to controllable state-space
  • cont_mat — controllability matrix
  • contr — controllability, controllable subspace, staircase
  • contrss — controllable part
  • copfac — right coprime factorization
  • csim — simulation (time response) of linear system
  • ctr_gram — controllability gramian
  • dbphi — frequency response to phase and magnitude representation
  • dcf — double coprime factorization
  • ddp — disturbance decoupling
  • des2ss — descriptor to state-space
  • des2tf — descriptor to transfer function conversion
  • dhinf — H_infinity design of discrete-time systems
  • dhnorm — discrete H-infinity norm
  • dscr — discretization of linear system
  • dsimul — state space discrete time simulation
  • dt_ility — detectability test
  • dtsi — stable anti-stable decomposition
  • equil — balancing of pair of symmetric matrices
  • equil1 — balancing (nonnegative) pair of matrices
  • evans — Evans root locus
  • feedback — feedback operation
  • findABCD — discrete-time system subspace identification
  • findAC — discrete-time system subspace identification
  • findBD — initial state and system matrices B and D of a discrete-time system
  • findBDK — Kalman gain and B D system matrices of a discrete-time system
  • findR — Preprocessor for estimating the matrices of a linear time-invariant dynamical system
  • findx0BD — Estimates state and B and D matrices of a discrete-time linear system
  • flts — time response (discrete time, sampled system)
  • fourplan — augmented plant to four plants
  • frep2tf — transfer function realization from frequency response
  • freq — frequency response
  • freson — peak frequencies
  • fspecg — stable factorization
  • fstabst — Youla's parametrization
  • g_margin — gain margin and associated crossover frequency
  • gainplot — magnitude plot
  • gamitg — H-infinity gamma iterations
  • gcare — control Riccati equation
  • gfare — filter Riccati equation
  • gfrancis — Francis equations for tracking
  • gtild — tilde operation
  • h2norm — H2 norm
  • h_cl — closed loop matrix
  • h_inf — H-infinity (central) controller
  • h_inf_st — static H_infinity problem
  • h_norm — H-infinity norm
  • hallchart — Draws the Hall chart
  • hankelsv — Hankel singular values
  • hinf — H_infinity design of continuous-time systems
  • imrep2ss — state-space realization of an impulse response
  • inistate — Estimates the initial state of a discrete-time system
  • invsyslin — system inversion
  • kpure — continuous SISO system limit feedback gain
  • krac2 — continuous SISO system limit feedback gain
  • lcf — normalized coprime factorization
  • leqr — H-infinity LQ gain (full state)
  • lft — linear fractional transformation
  • lin — linearization
  • linf — infinity norm
  • linfn — infinity norm
  • linmeq — Sylvester and Lyapunov equations solver
  • lqe — linear quadratic estimator (Kalman Filter)
  • lqg — LQG compensator
  • lqg2stan — LQG to standard problem
  • lqg_ltr — LQG with loop transform recovery
  • lqr — LQ compensator (full state)
  • ltitr — discrete time response (state space)
  • m_circle — plots the complex plane iso-gain contours of y/(1+y) (obsolete)
  • macglov — Mac Farlane Glover problem
  • markp2ss — Markov parameters to state-space
  • minreal — minimal balanced realization
  • minss — minimal realization
  • mucomp — mu (structured singular value) calculation
  • narsimul — armax simulation ( using rtitr)
  • nehari — Nehari approximant
  • nicholschart — Nichols chart
  • noisegen — noise generation
  • nyquist — nyquist plot
  • obs_gram — observability gramian
  • obscont — observer based controller
  • observer — observer design
  • obsv_mat — observability matrix
  • obsvss — observable part
  • p_margin — phase margin and associated crossover frequency
  • parrot — Parrot's problem
  • pfss — partial fraction decomposition
  • phasemag — phase and magnitude computation
  • ppol — pole placement
  • prbs_a — pseudo random binary sequences generation
  • projsl — linear system projection
  • reglin — Linear regression
  • repfreq — frequency response
  • ric_desc — Riccati equation
  • ricc — Riccati equation
  • riccati — Riccati equation
  • routh_t — Routh's table
  • rowinout — inner-outer factorization
  • rowregul — removing poles and zeros at infinity
  • rtitr — discrete time response (transfer matrix)
  • sensi — sensitivity functions
  • sgrid — s-plane grid lines.
  • show_margins — display gain and phase margin and associated crossover frequencies
  • sident — discrete-time state-space realization and Kalman gain
  • sm2des — system matrix to descriptor
  • sm2ss — system matrix to state-space
  • sorder — computing the order of a discrete-time system
  • specfact — spectral factor
  • ss2des — (polynomial) state-space to descriptor form
  • ss2ss — state-space to state-space conversion, feedback, injection
  • ss2tf — conversion from state-space to transfer function
  • st_ility — stabilizability test
  • stabil — stabilization
  • svplot — singular-value sigma-plot
  • sysfact — system factorization
  • syssize — size of state-space system
  • tf2des — transfer function to descriptor
  • tf2ss — transfer to state-space
  • time_id — SISO least square identification
  • trzeros — transmission zeros and normal rank
  • ui_observer — unknown input observer
  • unobs — unobservable subspace
  • zeropen — zero pencil
  • zgrid — zgrid plot
• Polynomials
  • bezout — Bezout equation for polynomials or integers
  • clean — cleans matrices (round to zero small entries)
  • cmndred — common denominator form
  • coeff — coefficients of matrix polynomial
  • coffg — inverse of polynomial matrix
  • colcompr — column compression of polynomial matrix
  • degree — degree of polynomial matrix
  • denom — denominator
  • derivat — rational matrix derivative
  • determ — determinant of polynomial matrix
  • detr — polynomial determinant
  • diophant — diophantine (Bezout) equation
  • factors — numeric real factorization
  • gcd — gcd calculation
  • hermit — Hermite form
  • horner — polynomial/rational evaluation
  • hrmt — gcd of polynomials
  • htrianr — triangularization of polynomial matrix
  • invr — inversion of (rational) matrix
  • lcm — least common multiple
  • lcmdiag — least common multiple diagonal factorization
  • ldiv — polynomial matrix long division
  • numer — numerator
  • pdiv — polynomial division
  • pol2des — polynomial matrix to descriptor form
  • pol2str — polynomial to string conversion
  • polfact — minimal factors
  • residu — residue
  • roots — roots of polynomials
  • rowcompr — row compression of polynomial matrix
  • sfact — discrete time spectral factorization
  • simp — rational simplification
  • simp_mode — toggle rational simplification
  • sylm — Sylvester matrix
  • systmat — system matrix
• Signal Processing
  • How to
    • DesignEllipticFilter — How to design an elliptic filter (analog and digital)
  • Signal — Signal manual description
  • analpf — create analog low-pass filter
  • bilt — bilinear or biquadratic transform SISO system given by a zero/poles representation
  • buttmag — Power transmission of a Butterworth filter
  • casc — cascade realization of filter from coefficients
  • cepstrum — cepstrum calculation
  • cheb1mag — response of Chebyshev type 1 filter
  • cheb2mag — response of type 2 Chebyshev filter
  • chepol — Chebychev polynomial
  • convol — convolution
  • corr — correlation, covariance
  • cspect — two sided cross-spectral estimate between 2 discrete time signals using the correlation method
  • czt — chirp z-transform algorithm
  • detrend — remove constant, linear or piecewise linear trend from a vector
  • dft — discrete Fourier transform
  • ell1mag — magnitude of elliptic filter
  • eqfir — minimax approximation of FIR filter
  • eqiir — Design of iir filters
  • faurre — filter computation by simple Faurre algorithm
  • ffilt — coefficients of FIR low-pass
  • fft — fast Fourier transform.
  • fft2 — two-dimension fast Fourier transform
  • fftshift — rearranges the fft output, moving the zero frequency to the center of the spectrum
  • filt_sinc — samples of sinc function
  • filter — filters a data sequence using a digital filter
  • find_freq — parameter compatibility for elliptic filter design
  • findm — for elliptic filter design
  • frfit — frequency response fit
  • frmag — magnitude of FIR and IIR filters
  • fsfirlin — design of FIR, linear phase filters, frequency sampling technique
  • group — group delay for digital filter
  • hank — covariance to hankel matrix
  • hilb — FIR approximation to a Hilbert transform filter
  • hilbert — Discrete-time analytic signal computation of a real signal using Hilbert transform
  • iir — iir digital filter
  • iirgroup — group delay Lp IIR filter optimization
  • iirlp — Lp IIR filter optimization
  • intdec — Changes sampling rate of a signal
  • jmat — row or column block permutation
  • kalm — Kalman update
  • lattn — recursive solution of normal equations
  • lattp — lattp
  • lev — Yule-Walker equations (Levinson's algorithm)
  • levin — Toeplitz system solver by Levinson algorithm (multidimensional)
  • lindquist — Lindquist's algorithm
  • mese — maximum entropy spectral estimation
  • mfft — multi-dimensional fft
  • mrfit — frequency response fit
  • percentasn — elliptic integral
  • percentk — Jacobi's complete elliptic integral
  • percentsn — Jacobi 's elliptic function
  • phc — Markovian representation
  • pspect — two sided cross-spectral estimate between 2 discrete time signals using the Welch's average periodogram method.
  • remez — Remez exchange algorithm for the weighted chebyshev approximation of a continuous function with a sum of cosines.
  • remezb — Minimax approximation of magnitude response
  • rpem — Recursive Prediction-Error Minimization estimation
  • sincd — digital sinc function or Direchlet kernel
  • srfaur — square-root algorithm
  • srkf — square root Kalman filter
  • sskf — steady-state Kalman filter
  • syredi — Design of iir filters, syredi code interface
  • system — observation update
  • trans — low-pass to other filter transform
  • wfir — linear-phase FIR filters
  • wiener — Wiener estimate
  • wigner — 'time-frequency' wigner spectrum
  • window — compute symmetric window of various type
  • yulewalk — least-square filter design
  • zpbutt — Butterworth analog filter
  • zpch1 — Chebyshev analog filter
  • zpch2 — Chebyshev analog filter
  • zpell — lowpass elliptic filter
• FFTW
  • fftw — Fast fourier transform based on the fftw library
  • fftw_flags — set computation method of fast fourier transform of the fftw function
  • fftw_forget_wisdom — Reset fftw wisdom
  • get_fftw_wisdom — return fftw wisdom
  • set_fftw_wisdom — set fftw wisdom
• Special Functions
  • bessel — Bessel functions of the third kind (aka Hankel functions)
  • beta — beta function
  • calerf — computes error functions.
  • dlgamma — derivative of gammaln function, psi function
  • erf — The error function.
  • erfc — The complementary error function.
  • erfcx — scaled complementary error function.
  • erfinv — inverse error function
  • gamma — The gamma function.
  • gammaln — The logarithm of gamma function.
  • legendre — associated Legendre functions
• Randlib
  • grand — Random number generator(s)
• ARnoldi PACKage
  • dnaupd — Interface for the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Iteration, to compute approximations to a few eigenpairs of a real linear operator
  • dneupd — Interface for the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Iteration, to compute the converged approximations to eigenvalues of A*z = lambda*B*z approximations to a few eigenpairs of a real linear operator
  • dsaupd — Interface for the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Iteration, to compute approximations to a few eigenpairs of a real and symmetric linear operator
  • dseupd — Interface for the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Iteration, to compute approximations to the converged approximations to eigenvalues of A*z = lambda*B*z
  • znaupd — Interface for the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Iteration, to compute a few eigenpairs of a complex linear operator OP with respect to a semi-inner product defined by a hermitian positive semi-definite real matrix B.
  • zneupd — Interface for the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Iteration, to compute approximations to the converged approximations to eigenvalues of A*z = lambda*B*z
• Statistics
  • cdfbet — cumulative distribution function Beta distribution
  • cdfbin — cumulative distribution function Binomial distribution
  • cdfchi — cumulative distribution function chi-square distribution
  • cdfchn — cumulative distribution function non-central chi-square distribution
  • cdff — cumulative distribution function F distribution
  • cdffnc — cumulative distribution function non-central f-distribution
  • cdfgam — cumulative distribution function gamma distribution
  • cdfnbn — cumulative distribution function negative binomial distribution
  • cdfnor — cumulative distribution function normal distribution
  • cdfpoi — cumulative distribution function poisson distribution
  • cdft — cumulative distribution function Student's T distribution
  • center — center
  • wcenter — center and weight
  • cmoment — central moments of all orders
  • correl — correlation of two variables
  • covar — covariance of two variables
  • ftest — Fischer ratio
  • ftuneq — Fischer ratio for samples of unequal size.
  • geomean — geometric mean
  • harmean — harmonic mean
  • iqr — interquartile range
  • mad — mean absolute deviation
  • mean — mean (row mean, column mean) of vector/matrix entries
  • meanf — weighted mean of a vector or a matrix
  • median — median (row median, column median,...) of vector/matrix/array entries
  • moment — non central moments of all orders
  • msd — mean squared deviation
  • mvvacov — computes variance-covariance matrix
  • nancumsum — Thos function returns the cumulative sum of the values of a matrix
  • nand2mean — difference of the means of two independent samples
  • nanmax — max (ignoring Nan's)
  • nanmean — mean (ignoring Nan's)
  • nanmeanf — mean (ignoring Nan's) with a given frequency.
  • nanmedian — median of the values of a numerical vector or matrix
  • nanmin — min (ignoring Nan's)
  • nanstdev — standard deviation (ignoring the NANs).
  • nansum — Sum of values ignoring NAN's
  • nfreq — frequence of the values in a vector or matrix
  • pca — Computes principal components analysis with standardized variables
  • perctl — computation of percentils
  • princomp — Principal components analysis
  • quart — computation of quartiles
  • regress — regression coefficients of two variables
  • sample — Sampling with replacement
  • samplef — sample with replacement from a population and frequences of his values.
  • samwr — Sampling without replacement
  • show_pca — Visualization of principal components analysis results
  • st_deviation — standard deviation (row or column-wise) of vector/matrix entries
  • stdevf — standard deviation
  • strange — range
  • tabul — frequency of values of a matrix or vector
  • thrownan — Eliminates nan values
  • trimmean — trimmed mean of a vector or a matrix
  • variance — variance of the values of a vector or matrix
  • variancef — standard deviation of the values of a vector or matrix
• Sparse Matrix
  • adj2sp — converts adjacency form into sparse matrix.
  • full — sparse to full matrix conversion
  • gmres — Generalized Minimum RESidual method
  • ludel — utility function used with lufact
  • lufact — sparse lu factorization
  • luget — extraction of sparse LU factors
  • lusolve — sparse linear system solver
  • mtlb_sparse — convert sparse matrix
  • nnz — number of non zero entries in a matrix
  • pcg — precondioned conjugate gradient
  • qmr — quasi minimal resiqual method with preconditioning
  • sp2adj — converts sparse matrix into adjacency form
  • sparse — sparse matrix definition
  • spchol — sparse cholesky factorization
  • spcompack — converts a compressed adjacency representation
  • speye — sparse identity matrix
  • spget — retrieves entries of sparse matrix
  • spones — sparse matrix
  • sprand — sparse random matrix
  • spzeros — sparse zero matrix
• UMFPACK Interface (sparse)
  • PlotSparse — plot the pattern of non nul elements of a sparse matrix
  • ReadHBSparse — read a Harwell-Boeing sparse format file
  • cond2sp — computes an approximation of the 2-norm condition number of a s.p.d. sparse matrix
  • condestsp — estimate the condition number of a sparse matrix
  • rafiter — (obsolete) iterative refinement for a s.p.d. linear system
  • res_with_prec — computes the residual r = Ax-b with precision
  • taucs_chdel — utility function used with taucs_chfact
  • taucs_chfact — cholesky factorisation of a sparse s.p.d. matrix
  • taucs_chget — retrieve the Cholesky factorization at the scilab level
  • taucs_chinfo — get information on Cholesky factors
  • taucs_chsolve — solve a linear sparse (s.p.d.) system given the Cholesky factors
  • taucs_license — display the taucs license
  • umf_license — display the umfpack license
  • umf_ludel — utility function used with umf_lufact
  • umf_lufact — lu factorisation of a sparse matrix
  • umf_luget — retrieve lu factors at the scilab level
  • umf_luinfo — get information on LU factors
  • umf_lusolve — solve a linear sparse system given the LU factors
  • umfpack — solve sparse linear system
• Optimization and Simulation
  • Neldermead
    • fminsearch — Computes the unconstrained minimimum of given function with the Nelder-Mead algorithm.
    • neldermead — Provides several direct search optimization algorithms based on the simplex method.
    • neldermead_overview — An overview of the Nelder-Mead toolbox.
    • nmplot — Provides several direct search optimization algorithms based on the simplex method.
    • optimget — Queries an optimization data structure.
    • optimplotfunccount — Plot the number of function evaluations of an optimization algorithm
    • optimplotfval — Plot the function value of an optimization algorithm
    • optimplotx — Plot the value of the parameters of an optimization algorithm
    • optimset — Configures and returns an optimization data structure.
  • Optimization base
    • optimbase — Provides an abstract class for a general optimization component.
  • Optimization simplex
    • optimsimplex — Manage a simplex with arbitrary number of points.
  • NDcost — generic external for optim computing gradient using finite differences
  • aplat — Flattens a list.
  • datafit — Parameter identification based on measured data
  • derivative — approximate derivatives of a function
  • fit_dat — Parameter identification based on measured data
  • fsolve — find a zero of a system of n nonlinear functions
  • karmarkar — Solves a linear optimization problem.
  • leastsq — Solves non-linear least squares problems
  • list2vec — Catenates list entries in a matrix.
  • lmisolver — linear matrix inequation solver
  • lmitool — tool for solving linear matrix inequations
  • lsqrsolve — minimize the sum of the squares of nonlinear functions, levenberg-marquardt algorithm
  • numdiff — numerical gradient estimation
  • optim — non-linear optimization routine
  • qld — linear quadratic programming solver
  • qp_solve — linear quadratic programming solver builtin
  • qpsolve — linear quadratic programming solver
  • quapro — linear quadratic programming solver (obsolete)
  • readmps — reads a file in MPS format
  • recons — reciprocal function for aplat.
  • semidef — semidefinite programming
  • vec2list — list2vec reciprocal function
• Genetic Algorithms
  • coding_ga_binary — A function which performs conversion between binary and continuous representation
  • coding_ga_identity — A "no-operation" conversion function
  • crossover_ga_binary — A crossover function for binary code
  • crossover_ga_default — A crossover function for continuous variable functions
  • init_ga_default — A function a initialize a population
  • mutation_ga_binary — A function which performs binary mutation
  • mutation_ga_default — A continuous variable mutation function
  • optim_ga — A flexible genetic algorithm
  • optim_moga — multi-objective genetic algorithm
  • optim_nsga — A multi-objective Niched Sharing Genetic Algorithm
  • optim_nsga2 — A multi-objective Niched Sharing Genetic Algorithm version 2
  • pareto_filter — A function which extracts non dominated solution from a set
  • selection_ga_elitist — An 'elitist' selection function
  • selection_ga_random — A function which performs a random selection of individuals
• Simulated Annealing
  • accept_func_default — The default Simulated Annealing acceptation function.
  • accept_func_vfsa — The Very Fast Simulated Annealing acceptation function.
  • compute_initial_temp — A SA function which allows to compute the initial temperature of the simulated annealing
  • neigh_func_csa — The classical neighborhood relationship for the simulated annealing
  • neigh_func_default — A SA function which computes a neighbor of a given point
  • neigh_func_fsa — The Fast Simulated Annealing neghborhood relationship
  • neigh_func_vfsa — The Very Fast Simulated Annealing neighborhood relationship
  • optim_sa — A Simulated Annealing optimization method
  • temp_law_csa — The classical temperature decrease law
  • temp_law_default — A SA function which computed the temperature of the next temperature stage
  • temp_law_fsa — The Szu and Hartley Fast simulated annealing
  • temp_law_huang — The Huang temperature decrease law for the simulated annealing
  • temp_law_vfsa — This function implements the Very Fast Simulated Annealing from L. Ingber
• Symbolic
  • addf — symbolic addition
  • ldivf — left symbolic division
  • mulf — symbolic multiplication
  • rdivf — right symbolic division
  • subf — symbolic subtraction
• Files : Input/Output functions
  • basename — strip directory and suffix from filenames
  • chdir — changes Scilab current directory
  • copyfile — Copy file
  • createdir — Make new directory
  • deletefile — delete a file
  • dir — get file list
  • dirname — get directory from filenames
  • dispfiles — display opened files properties
  • fileext — returns extension for a file path
  • fileinfo — Provides information about a file
  • fileparts — returns the path, filename and extension for a file path
  • filesep — returns directory separator for current platform
  • findfiles — Finding all files with a given filespec
  • fprintf — Emulator of C language fprintf function
  • fprintfMat — Write a matrix in a file.
  • fscanf — Converts formatted input read on a file
  • fscanfMat — Reads a Matrix from a text file.
  • fullfile — Build a full filename from parts
  • fullpath — Creates an full path name for the specified relative path name.
  • get_absolute_file_path — Given an absolute pathname of a file opened in scilab.
  • getdrives — Get the drive letters of all mounted filesystems on the computer.
  • getlongpathname — get long path name (Only for Windows)
  • getrelativefilename — Given an absolute directory and an absolute filename, returns a relative file name.
  • getshortpathname — get short path name (Only for Windows)
  • percentio — variable returns standard input and standard output (file descriptor).
  • isdir — checks if argument is a directory path
  • isfile — checks if argument is a file
  • listfiles — list files
  • listvarinfile — list the contents of a saved data file
  • ls — show files
  • maxfiles — sets the limit for the number of files a scilab is allowed to have open simultaneously.
  • mclearerr — reset binary file access errors
  • mclose — close an opened file
  • mdelete — Delete file(s)
  • meof — check if end of file has been reached
  • merror — tests the file access errors indicator
  • mfprintf — converts, formats, and writes data to a file
  • mfscanf — reads its input from the character string (interface to the C sscanf function)
  • mget — reads byte or word in a given binary format return an int type
  • mgetl — read lines from an text file
  • mgetstr — read a character string from a file
  • mkdir — Make new directory
  • mopen — open a file
  • movefile — Move file or directory
  • mput — writes byte or word in a given binary format
  • mputl — writes strings in an ascii file
  • mputstr — write a character string in a file
  • mseek — set current position in binary file.
  • mtell — binary file management
  • newest — returns newest file of a set of files
  • pathconvert — pathnames convertion between POSIX and windows.
  • pathsep — returns path separator for current platform
  • pwd — get Scilab current directory
  • removedir — Remove a directory
  • rmdir — Remove a directory
  • save_format — format of files produced by "save"
  • scanf — Converts formatted input on standard input
  • scanf_conversion — scanf, sscanf, fscanf conversion specifications
  • sscanf — Converts formatted input given by a string
• Input/Output functions
  • file — file management
  • getenv — get the value of an environment variable
  • getio — get Scilab input/output logical units
  • getpid — get Scilab process identificator
  • getscilabkeywords — returns a list with all scilab keywords.
  • halt — stop execution
  • host — Unix or DOS command execution
  • input — prompt for user input
  • load — Load a saved variable or a serie of variables
  • oldload — load saved variable in 2.4.1 and previous formats (OBSOLETE)
  • oldsave — saving variables in 2.4.1 and previous format (OBSOLETE)
  • read — matrices read
  • read4b — fortran file binary read
  • readb — fortran file binary read
  • save — Save a variable or a serie of variables in a binary file
  • setenv — set the value of an environment variable
  • unix — shell (sh) command execution
  • unix_g — shell (sh) command execution, output redirected to a variable
  • unix_s — shell (sh) command execution, no output
  • unix_w — shell (sh) command execution, output redirected to scilab window
  • unix_x — shell (sh) command execution, output redirected to a window
  • writb — fortran file binary write
  • write — write in a formatted file
  • write4b — fortran file binary write
• Graphics Library
  • 2d_plot
    • LineSpec — to quickly customize the lines appearance in a plot
    • Matplot — 2D plot of a matrix using colors
    • Matplot1 — 2D plot of a matrix using colors
    • Matplot_properties — description of the Matplot entities properties
    • Sfgrayplot — smooth 2D plot of a surface defined by a function using colors
    • Sgrayplot — smooth 2D plot of a surface using colors
    • champ — 2D vector field plot
    • champ1 — 2D vector field plot with colored arrows
    • champ_properties — description of the 2D vector field entity properties
    • contour2d — level curves of a surface on a 2D plot
    • contour2di — compute level curves of a surface on a 2D plot
    • contourf — filled level curves of a surface on a 2D plot
    • errbar — add vertical error bars on a 2D plot
    • fchamp — direction field of a 2D first order ODE
    • fcontour2d — level curves of a surface defined by a function on a 2D plot
    • fec — pseudo-color plot of a function defined on a triangular mesh
    • fec_properties — description of the fec entities properties
    • fgrayplot — 2D plot of a surface defined by a function using colors
    • fplot2d — 2D plot of a curve defined by a function
    • grayplot — 2D plot of a surface using colors
    • grayplot_properties — description of the grayplot entities properties
    • graypolarplot — Polar 2D plot of a surface using colors
    • histplot — plot a histogram
    • oldplot — simple plot (old version)
    • paramfplot2d — animated 2D plot, curve defined by a function
    • plot — 2D plot
    • plot2d — 2D plot
    • plot2d1 — 2D plot (logarithmic axes) (obsolete)
    • plot2d2 — 2D plot (step function)
    • plot2d3 — 2D plot (vertical bars)
    • plot2d4 — 2D plot (arrows style)
    • plot2d_old_version — The syntaxes described below are obsolete
    • polarplot — Plot polar coordinates
  • 3d_plot
    • contour — level curves on a 3D surface
    • eval3d — values of a function on a grid
    • eval3dp — compute facets of a 3D parametric surface
    • fac3d — 3D plot of a surface (obsolete)
    • fcontour — level curves on a 3D surface defined by a function
    • fplot3d — 3D plot of a surface defined by a function
    • fplot3d1 — 3D gray or color level plot of a surface defined by a function
    • genfac3d — compute facets of a 3D surface
    • geom3d — projection from 3D on 2D after a 3D plot
    • hist3d — 3D representation of a histogram
    • mesh — 3D mesh plot
    • milk_drop — milk drop 3D function
    • nf3d — rectangular facets to plot3d parameters
    • param3d — 3D plot of a parametric curve
    • param3d1 — 3D plot of parametric curves
    • param3d_properties — description of the 3D curves entities properties
    • plot3d — 3D plot of a surface
    • plot3d1 — 3D gray or color level plot of a surface
    • plot3d2 — plot surface defined by rectangular facets
    • plot3d3 — mesh plot surface defined by rectangular facets
    • secto3d — 3D surfaces conversion
    • surf — 3D surface plot
    • surface_properties — description of the 3D entities properties
  • annotation
    • captions — draw graph captions
    • label_properties — description of the Label entity properties
    • legend — draw graph legend
    • legend_properties — description of the Legend entity properties.
    • legends — draw graph legend
    • title — display a title on a graphic window
    • xtitle — add titles on a graphics window
  • axes_operations
    • axes_properties — description of the axes entity properties
    • gca — Return handle of current axes.
    • gda — Return handle of default axes.
    • graduate — pretty axis graduations
    • isoview — set scales for isometric plot (do not change the size of the window)
    • newaxes — Creates a new Axes entity
    • plotframe — plot a frame with scaling and grids. This function is obsolete.
    • replot — redraw the current graphics window with new boundaries
    • rotate_axes — Interactive rotation of an Axes handle.
    • sca — set the current axes entity
    • sda — Set default axes.
    • subplot — divide a graphics window into a matrix of sub-windows
    • unzoom — unzoom graphics
    • zoom_rect — zoom a selection of the current graphic figure
  • axis
    • axis_properties — description of the axis entity properties
    • drawaxis — draw an axis
  • bar_histogram
    • bar — bar histogram
    • barh — horizontal display of bar histogram
    • barhomogenize — homogenize all the bars included in the current working axes
  • Color management
    • addcolor — add new colors to the current colormap
    • autumncolormap — red through orange to yellow colormap
    • bonecolormap — gray colormap with a light blue tone
    • color — returns the color id of a color
    • color_list — list of named colors
    • colorbar — draw a colorbar
    • colordef — Set default color values to display different color schemes
    • colormap — using colormaps
    • coolcolormap — cyan to magenta colormap
    • coppercolormap — black to a light copper tone colormap
    • getcolor — opens a dialog to show colors in the current colormap
    • graycolormap — linear gray colormap
    • hotcolormap — red to yellow colormap
    • hsv2rgb — Converts HSV colors to RGB
    • hsvcolormap — Hue-saturation-value colormap
    • jetcolormap — blue to red colormap
    • name2rgb — returns the RGB values of a named color
    • oceancolormap — linear blue colormap
    • pinkcolormap — sepia tone colorization on black and white images
    • rainbowcolormap — red through orange, yellow, green,blue to violet colormap
    • rgb2name — returns the name of a color
    • springcolormap — magenta to yellow colormap
    • summercolormap — green to yellow colormap
    • whitecolormap — completely white colormap
    • wintercolormap — blue to green colormap
  • Datatips
    • datatipCreate — Create a data tip on a polyline by program
    • datatipGetEntities — Get all the entities compatible with datatips in the given axes.
    • datatipGetStruct — Extract the datatips data structure infrom the curve or surface entity.
    • datatipInitStruct — initialize the datatip structure associated with the given polyline.
    • datatipManagerMode — Set or toggles the data tips mode.
    • datatipMove — Move a specified datatip using the mouse.
    • datatipRedraw — Adjust datatip text boxes positions after a 3D rotation
    • datatipRemove — Removes a selected datatip
    • datatipRemoveAll — Removes all datatips on a set of polylines.
    • datatipSetDisplay — Search the nearest datatip of a given point.
    • datatipSetInterp — Set the interpolation mode for tip location.
    • datatipSetOrientation — Search the nearest datatip of a given point.
    • datatipSetStruct — Stores the datatips data structure in the curve or surface entity.
    • datatipToggle — toggles the data tips mode.
    • datatips — Tool for placing and editing tips along the plotted curves.
    • orthProj — Computes the orthogonal projection of a point to a polyline in the plane.
  • figure_operations
    • clf — clear or reset the current graphic figure (window) to default values
    • drawlater — makes axes children invisible.
    • drawnow — draw hidden graphics entities.
    • figure_properties — description of the graphics figure entity properties
    • gcf — Return handle of current graphic window.
    • gdf — Return handle of default figure.
    • scf — set the current graphic figure (window)
    • sdf — Set default figure.
  • geometric_shapes
    • arc_properties — description of the Arc entity properties
    • rectangle_properties — description of the Rectangle entity properties
    • xarc — draw a part of an ellipse
    • xarcs — draw parts of a set of ellipses
    • xarrows — draw a set of arrows
    • xfarc — fill a part of an ellipse
    • xfarcs — fill parts of a set of ellipses
    • xfrect — fill a rectangle
    • xrect — draw a rectangle
    • xrects — draw or fill a set of rectangles
  • handle
    • copy — copy a graphics entity.
    • delete — delete a graphic entity and its children.
    • draw — draw an entity.
    • gce — Get current entity handle.
    • ged — Scilab Graphic Editor
    • get_figure_handle — get a figure handle from its id
    • glue — glue a set of graphics entities into an Compound.
    • is_handle_valid — Check wether a set of graphic handles is still valid.
    • relocate_handle — Move handles inside the graphic hierarchy.
    • sd2sci — gr_menu structure to scilab instruction convertor
    • swap_handles — Permute two handles in the graphic Hierarchy.
    • unglue — unglue a coumpound object and replace it by individual children.
  • interaction
    • dragrect — Drag rectangle(s) with mouse
    • edit_curv — interactive graphic curve editor
    • eventhandlerfunctions — Prototype of functions which may be used as event handler.
    • locate — mouse selection of a set of points
    • seteventhandler — set an event handler for the current graphic window
    • xclick — Wait for a mouse click.
    • xgetmouse — get the mouse events and current position
  • load_save
    • xload — load a saved graphics
    • xsave — save graphics into a file
  • pie
    • pie — draw a pie
  • polygon
    • polyline_properties — description of the Polyline entity properties
    • xfpoly — fill a polygon
    • xfpolys — fill a set of polygons
    • xpoly — draw a polyline or a polygon
    • xpolys — draw a set of polylines or polygons
    • xrpoly — draw a regular polygon
  • property
    • get — Retrieve a property value from a graphics entity or an User Interface object.
    • set — set a property value of a graphic entity object or of a User Interface object.
  • style
    • getlinestyle — dialog to select linestyle. Obsolete function.
    • getmark — dialog to select mark (symbol). Obsolete function
    • getsymbol — dialog to select a symbol and its size. Obsolete function
  • text
    • getfont — dialog to select font . Obsolete function.
    • graphics_fonts — description of fonts used in graphic figures
    • math_rendering_features_in_graphic — Display mathematical equations in Scilab graphics through the LaTeX or MathML languages.
    • stringbox — Compute the bounding rectangle of a text or a label.
    • text_properties — description of the Text entity properties
    • titlepage — add a title in the middle of a graphics window
    • xinfo — draw an info string in the message subwindow
    • xlfont — load a font in the graphic context or query loaded font
    • xstring — draw strings
    • xstringb — draw strings into a box
    • xstringl — compute a box which surrounds strings
  • transform
    • move — move, translate, a graphic entity and its children.
    • rotate — rotation of a set of points
    • scaling — affine transformation of a set of points
  • window_control
    • havewindow — return scilab window mode
    • show_window — raises a graphics window
    • winsid — return the list of graphics windows
    • xselect — raise the current graphics window
  • GlobalProperty — to customize the objects appearance (curves, surfaces...) in a plot or surf command.
  • Graphics — graphics library overview
  • alufunctions — pixel drawing functions. This function is obsolete.
  • clear_pixmap — erase the pixmap buffer
  • Compound_properties — description of the Compound entity properties
  • graphics_entities — description of the graphics entities data structures
  • object_editor — description of the graphic object editor capacities
  • pixel_drawing_mode — bitwise pixel rendering functions.
  • plzr — pole-zero plot
  • rubberbox — Rubberband box for rectangle selection
  • segs_properties — description of the Segments entity properties
  • show_pixmap — send the pixmap buffer to the screen
  • square — set scales for isometric plot (change the size of the window)
  • twinkle — is used to have a graphics entity twinkle
  • xbasr — redraw a graphics window
  • xchange — transform real to pixel coordinates
  • xclear — clears a graphics window
  • xdel — delete a graphics window
  • xget — get current values of the graphics context. This function is obsolete.
  • xgetech — get the current graphics scale
  • xgraduate — axis graduation
  • xgrid — add a grid on a 2D plot
  • xname — change the name of the current graphics window
  • xnumb — draw numbers
  • xpause — suspend Scilab
  • xsegs — draw unconnected segments
  • xset — set values of the graphics context. This function is obsolete.
  • xsetech — set the sub-window of a graphics window for plotting
  • xsetm — dialog to set values of the graphics context. Obsolete function.
• Graphics : exporting and printing
  • driver — select a graphics driver
  • xend — close a graphics session
  • xinit — Initialization of a graphics driver
  • xs2bmp — send graphics to a BMP file.
  • xs2emf — send graphics to an EMF file (Only for Windows).
  • xs2eps — send graphics to an EPS file.
  • xs2fig — send graphics to a FIG file.
  • xs2gif — send graphics to a GIF file.
  • xs2jpg — send graphics to a JPG file.
  • xs2pdf — save graphics to a PDF file.
  • xs2png — send graphics to a PNG file.
  • xs2ppm — send graphics to a PPM file.
  • xs2ps — send graphics to a PS file.
  • xs2svg — save graphics to a SVG file.
• GUI
  • Tree
    • uiConcatTree — Concatenation of Trees
    • uiCreateNode — Creation of node (for Scilab Tree)
    • uiCreateTree — Creation of a Tree
    • uiDeleteNode — Deletion in a Tree
    • uiDisplayTree — Printing a Tree in GUI mode
    • uiDumpTree — Printing a Tree in the console (text mode)
    • uiEqualsTree — Comparing two trees
    • uiFindNode — Find node in Tree
    • uiGetChildrenNode — Get Children of a node
    • uiGetNodePosition — Get the position(s) of a node
    • uiGetParentNode — Get Parent of a node
    • uiInsertNode — Insertion in a Tree
  • about — show "about scilab" dialog box
  • addmenu — interactive button or menu definition
  • clipboard — Copy and paste strings to and from the system clipboard.
  • close — close a figure
  • delmenu — interactive button or menu deletion
  • exportUI — Call the file export graphical interface
  • figure — create a figure
  • findobj — find an object with specified property
  • gcbo — Handle of the object whose callback is executing.
  • getcallbackobject — Return the handle of the object whose callback is executing.
  • getinstalledlookandfeels — returns a string matrix with all Look and Feels.
  • getlookandfeel — gets the current default look and feel.
  • getvalue — xwindow dialog for data acquisition
  • messagebox — Open a message box.
  • printfigure — Opens a printing dialog and prints a figure.
  • printsetupbox — Display print dialog box.
  • progressionbar — Draw a progression bar
  • root_properties — description of the root object properties.
  • setlookandfeel — sets the current default look and feel.
  • setmenu — interactive button or menu activation
  • toolbar — show or hide a toolbar
  • toprint — Send text or figure to the printer.
  • uicontrol — create a Graphic User Interface object
  • uigetcolor — Opens a dialog for selecting a color.
  • uigetdir — dialog for selecting a directory
  • uigetfile — dialog window to get a file(s) name(s), path and filter index
  • uigetfont — Opens a dialog for selecting a font.
  • uimenu — Create a menu or a submenu in a figure
  • uiputfile — Open standard dialog box for selecting and saving file.
  • unsetmenu — interactive button or menu or submenu de-activation
  • usecanvas — Get/Set the main component used for Scilab graphics.
  • waitbar — Draw a waitbar
  • x_choices — interactive Xwindow choices through toggle buttons
  • x_choose — interactive window choice (modal dialog)
  • x_choose_modeless — interactive window choice (not modal dialog)
  • x_dialog — Dialog for interactive multi-lines input.
  • x_matrix — Xwindow editing of matrix
  • x_mdialog — Dialog for interactive vector/matrix input.
• Data Structures
  • cell — Create a cell array of empty matrices.
  • definedfields — return index of list's defined fields
  • fieldnames — get a tlist, mlist or struct fields names
  • getfield — list field extraction
  • hypermat — initialize an N dimensional matrices
  • hypermatrices — Scilab object, N dimensional matrices in Scilab
  • iscell — Check if a variable is a cell array
  • iscellstr — Check if a variable is a cell array of strings
  • isfield — Checks if the given fieldname exists in the structure
  • isstruct — Check if a variable is a structure array
  • list — Scilab object and list function definition
  • lsslist — Scilab linear state space function definition
  • lstcat — list concatenation
  • mlist — Scilab object, matrix oriented typed list definition.
  • rlist — Scilab rational fraction function definition
  • setfield — list field insertion
  • struct — create a struct
  • tlist — Scilab object and typed list definition.
• Parameters
  • add_param — Add a parameter to a list of parameters
  • get_param — Get the value of a parameter in a parameter list
  • init_param — Initialize the structure which will handles the parameters list
  • is_param — Check if a parameter is present in a parameter list
  • list_param — List all the parameters name in a list of parameters
  • remove_param — Remove a parameter and its associated value from a list of parameters
  • set_param — Set the value of a parameter in a parameter list
• Boolean
  • bool2s — convert boolean matrix to a zero one matrix.
  • find — find indices of boolean vector or matrix true elements
• Integers
  • iconvert — conversion to 1 or 4 byte integer representation
  • int8 — conversion to 4 bytes unsigned integer representation
  • inttype — type integers used in integer data types
• Strings
  • ascii — string ascii conversions
  • blanks — Create string of blank characters
  • code2str — returns character string associated with Scilab integer codes.
  • convstr — case conversion
  • emptystr — zero length string
  • eval — evaluation of a matrix of strings
  • evstr — evaluation of expressions
  • grep — find matches of a string in a vector of strings
  • isalphanum — check that characters of a string are alphanumerics
  • isascii — tests if character is a 7-bit US-ASCII character
  • isdigit — check that characters of a string are digits between 0 and 9
  • isletter — check that characters of a string are alphabetics letters
  • isnum — tests if a string represents a number
  • justify — Justify character array.
  • length — length of object
  • part — extraction of strings
  • regexp — find a substring that matches the regular expression string
  • sci2exp — converts an expression to a string
  • str2code — return scilab integer codes associated with a character string
  • strcat — concatenate character strings
  • strchr — Find the first occurrence of a character in a string
  • strcmp — compare character strings
  • strcmpi — compare character strings (case independent)
  • strcspn — Get span until character in string
  • strindex — search position of a character string in an other string.
  • string — conversion to string
  • strings — Scilab Object, character strings
  • stripblanks — Strips / trims leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of strings
  • strncmp — Copy characters from strings
  • strrchr — Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
  • strrev — returns string reversed
  • strsplit — split a string into a vector of strings
  • strspn — Get span of character set in string
  • strstr — Locate substring
  • strsubst — substitute a character string by another in a character string.
  • strtod — Convert string to double.
  • strtok — Split string into tokens
  • tokenpos — returns the tokens positions in a character string.
  • tokens — returns the tokens of a character string.
  • tree2code — generates ascii definition of a Scilab function
• Sound file handling
  • analyze — frequency plot of a sound signal
  • auread — load .au sound file
  • auwrite — writes .au sound file
  • beep — Produce a beep sound
  • lin2mu — linear signal to mu-law encoding
  • loadwave — load a sound wav file into scilab
  • mapsound — Plots a sound map
  • mu2lin — mu-law encoding to linear signal
  • playsnd — sound player facility
  • savewave — save data into a sound wav file.
  • sound — sound player facility
  • soundsec — generates n sampled seconds of time parameter
  • wavread — load .wav sound file
  • wavwrite — writes .wav sound file
• Time and Date
  • calendar — Calendar
  • clock — Return current time as date vector
  • date — Current date as date string
  • datenum — Convert to serial date number
  • datevec — Date components
  • eomday — Return last day of month
  • etime — Elapsed time
  • getdate — get date and time information
  • now — Return current date and time
  • realtime — set dates origin or waits until date
  • sleep — suspend Scilab
  • tic — start a stopwatch timer
  • timer — cpu time
  • toc — Read the stopwatch timer
  • weekday — Return day of week
• Output functions
  • diary — diary of session
  • disp — displays variables
  • mprintf — converts, formats, and writes data to the main scilab window
  • msprintf — converts, formats, and writes data in a string
  • prettyprint — From any Scilab datatype and provide a representation to the TeX, LaTeX or MathML formats
  • print — prints variables in a file
  • printf — Emulator of C language printf function
  • printf_conversion — printf, sprintf, fprintf conversion specifications
  • sprintf — Emulator of C language sprintf function
  • ssprint — pretty print for linear system
• Xcos
  • Batch functions
    • lincos — Constructs by linearization a linear state-space model from a general dynamical system described by a xcos diagram
    • scicos — OBSOLETE - see xcos
    • scicos_simulate — Function for running xcos simulation in batch mode
    • scicosim — xcos (batch) simulation function
    • steadycos — Finds an equilibrium state of a general dynamical system described by a xcos diagram
  • palettes
    • Annotations palette
      • Annotations_pal — Annotations palette
      • TEXT_f — Text
    • Commonly used blocks palette
      • Commonlyusedblocks_pal — Commonly used blocks palette
      • LOGICAL_OP — Logical operation
      • RELATIONALOP — Relational operation
    • Continuous time systems palette
      • Continuous_pal — Continuous time systems palette
      • CLINDUMMY_f — Dummy
      • CLR — Continuous transfer function
      • CLSS — Continuous state-space system
      • DERIV — Derivative
      • INTEGRAL_f — Integration
      • INTEGRAL_m — Integration
      • PID — PID regulator
      • TCLSS — Continuous linear system with jump
      • TIME_DELAY — Time delay
      • VARIABLE_DELAY — Variable delay
    • Demonstrations blocks palette
      • Demonstrationsblocks_pal — Demonstrations blocks palette
      • AUTOMAT — automata (finite state machine)
      • BOUNCE — Balls coordinates generator
      • BOUNCEXY — Balls viewer
      • BPLATFORM — Balls under a platform viewer
      • PDE — 1D PDE block
    • Discontinuities palette
      • discontinuities_pal — discontinuities palette
      • BACKLASH — Backlash
      • DEADBAND — Deadband
      • HYSTHERESIS — Hystheresis
      • RATELIMITER — Rate limiter
      • SATURATION — Saturation
    • Discrete time systems palette
      • Discrete_pal — Discrete time systems palette
      • DELAYV_f — Variable delay
      • DELAY_f — Discrete time delay
      • DLR — Discrete transfer function
      • DLRADAPT_f — Discrete Zero-Pole
      • DLSS — Discrete state-space system
      • DOLLAR_f — Delay operator
      • REGISTER — Shift Register
    • Electrical palette
      • Electrical_pal — Electrical palette
      • CCS — Controllable Modelica current source
      • CVS — Controllable Modelica voltage source
      • Capacitor — Electrical capacitor
      • ConstantVoltage — Electrical DC voltage source
      • CurrentSensor — Electrical current sensor
      • Diode — Electrical diode
      • Ground — Ground (zero potential reference)
      • Gyrator — Modelica Gyrator
      • IdealTransformer — Ideal Transformer
      • Inductor — Electrical inductor
      • NMOS — Simple NMOS Transistor
      • NPN — NPN transistor
      • OpAmp — Ideal opamp (norator-nullator pair)
      • PMOS — Simple PMOS Transistor
      • PNP — PNP transistor
      • PotentialSensor — Potential sensor
      • Resistor — Electrical resistor
      • SineVoltage — Sine voltage source
      • Switch — Non-ideal electrical switch
      • VVsourceAC — Variable AC voltage source
      • VariableResistor — Electrical variable resistor
      • VoltageSensor — Electrical voltage sensor
      • VsourceAC — Electrical AC voltage source
    • Event handling palette
      • Events_pal — Event handling palette
      • ANDBLK — Activation and
      • ANDLOG_f — Logical and
      • CEVENTSCOPE — Activation scope
      • CLKFROM — Receives data from a corresponding CLKGOTO
      • CLKGOTO — Pass block input to CLKFROM block
      • CLKGotoTagVisibility — Define Scope of CLKGOTO tag visibility
      • CLKOUTV_f — Output activation port
      • CLKSOMV_f — Activation union
      • EDGE_TRIGGER — EDGE_TRIGGER block
      • ESELECT_f — Synchronous block Event-Select
      • EVTDLY_c — Event delay
      • EVTGEN_f — Event generator
      • EVTVARDLY — Event variable delay
      • Extract_Activation — Extract_Activation block
      • HALT_f — Halt
      • IFTHEL_f — Synchronous block If-Then-Else
      • MCLOCK_f — MCLOCK_f title
      • MFCLCK_f — MFCLCK_f title
      • M_freq — Multiple Frequencies
      • freq_div — Frequency division
    • Implicit palette
      • Implicit_pal — Implicit palette
      • CONSTRAINT_f — Constraint
      • DIFF_f — Derivative
    • Integer palette
      • Integer_pal — Integer palette
      • BITCLEAR — Clear a Bit
      • BITSET — Set a Bit
      • CONVERT — Data Type Conversion
      • DFLIPFLOP — D flip-flop
      • DLATCH — D latch flip-flop
      • EXTRACTBITS — Bits Extraction
      • INTMUL — Integer matrix multiplication
      • JKFLIPFLOP — JK flip-flop
      • LOGIC — Combinatorial Logic
      • SHIFT — Shift/Rotate Bits
      • SRFLIPFLOP — SR flip-flop
    • Lookup tables palette
      • Lookuptables_pal — Lookup tables palette
      • INTRP2BLK_f — 2D interpolation
      • INTRPLBLK_f — Interpolation
      • LOOKUP_f — Lookup table
    • Math operations palette
      • Mathoperations_pal — Math operations palette
      • ABS_VALUE — Absolute value
      • BIGSOM_f — Scalar or vector Addition/Soustraction
      • COSBLK_f — Cosine
      • EXPBLK_m — Exponential of a scalar
      • GAINBLK_f — Gain
      • INVBLK — Inverse
      • LOGBLK_f — Logarithm
      • MATMAGPHI — Complex from/to Magnitude and Angle Conversion
      • MATZREIM — Complex decomposition/composition
      • MAXMIN — Maximum or minimum value of vectors's elements
      • MAX_f — Maximum value of a vector's elements
      • MIN_f — Minimum value of a vector's elements
      • POWBLK_f — Array power
      • PRODUCT — Element-wise vector multiplication/division
      • PROD_f — Element-wise product
      • SIGNUM — Sign
      • SINBLK_f — Sine
      • SQRT — Square root
      • SUMMATION — Matrix Addition/Subtraction
      • SUM_f — Addition
      • TANBLK_f — Tangent
      • TrigFun — Trigonometric function
    • Matrix operation palette
      • Matrix_pal — Matrix operation palette
      • CUMSUM — Cumulative Sum
      • EXTRACT — Matrix extractor
      • EXTTRI — Triangular or Diagonal Extraction
      • MATBKSL — Left matrix division
      • MATCATH — Horizontal Concatenation
      • MATCATV — Vertical Concatenation
      • MATDET — Matrix Determinant
      • MATDIAG — Create Diagonal Matrix
      • MATDIV — Matrix division
      • MATEIG — Matrix Eigenvalues
      • MATEXPM — Matrix Exponential
      • MATINV — Matrix Inverse
      • MATLU — LU Factorization
      • MATMUL — Matrix Multiplication
      • MATPINV — Matrix PseudoInverse
      • MATRESH — Matrix Reshape
      • MATSING — SVD Decomposition
      • MATSUM — Sum of Matrix's Elements
      • MATTRAN — Matrix Transpose
      • MATZCONJ — Conjugate of Matrix's Elements
      • RICC — Riccati Equation
      • ROOTCOEF — Polynomial Coefficient Computation
      • SUBMAT — Sub-matrix Extraction
    • Port & Subsystem palette
      • Portaction_pal — Port & Subsystem palette
      • IN_f — Input Port
      • OUTIMPL_f — Output implicit port
      • OUT_f — Output Port
    • Signal processing palette
      • Signalprocessing_pal — Signal processing palette
      • QUANT_f — Quantization
      • SAMPHOLD_m — Sample and hold
    • Signal routing palette
      • Signalrouting_pal — Signal routing palette
      • DEMUX — Demultiplexer
      • EXTRACTOR — Extractor
      • FROM — FROM Receives data from a corresponding GOTO
      • FROMMO — Receives data from a corresponding GOTOMO
      • GOTO — GOTO Pass block input to From block
      • GOTOMO — Pass block input to FROMMO block
      • GotoTagVisibility — Define Scope of GOTO tag visibility
      • GotoTagVisibilityMO — Define Scope of GOTOMO tag visibility
      • ISELECT_m — Iselect
      • MUX — Multiplexer
      • M_SWITCH — Multi-port switch
      • NRMSOM_f — Merge data
      • RELAY_f — Relay
      • SELECT_m — Select
      • SWITCH2_m — Switch2
      • SWITCH_f — Switch
    • Sinks palette
      • Sinks_pal — Sinks palette
      • AFFICH_m — Display
      • CANIMXY — y=f(x) animated viewer
      • CANIMXY3D — z=f(x,y) animated viewer
      • CFSCOPE — Floating point scope
      • CMAT3D — Matrix z values 3D viewer
      • CMATVIEW — Matrix Colormapped viewer
      • CMSCOPE — Multi display scope
      • CSCOPE — Single Display Scope
      • CSCOPXY — y=f(x) permanent viewer
      • CSCOPXY3D — z=f(x,y) permanent viewer
      • ENDBLK — END block
      • END_c — END_c block
      • TOWS_c — Data to Scilab worspace
      • TRASH_f — Trash block
      • WFILE_f — Write to file
      • WRITEAU_f — Write AU sound file
      • WRITEC_f — Write binary data
    • Sources palette
      • Sources_pal — Sources palette
      • CLKINV_f — Input activation port
      • CLOCK_c — Activation clock
      • CONST_m — Constant
      • CURV_f — Curve
      • Counter — Counter
      • FROMWSB — Data from Scilab workspace to Xcos
      • GENSIN_f — Sin generator
      • GENSQR_f — Square wave generator
      • INIMPL_f — Input implicit port
      • Modulo_Count — Modulo counter
      • RAMP — Ramp
      • RAND_m — Random generator
      • READAU_f — Read AU sound file
      • READC_f — Read binary data
      • RFILE_f — Read from file
      • SAWTOOTH_f — Sawtooth generator
      • STEP_FUNCTION — Step function generator
      • SampleCLK — Sample Time Clock
      • Sigbuilder — Signal creator/generator
      • TIME_f — Time
      • TKSCALE — Adjust constant value with a tk widget
    • Thermohydraulics palette
      • ThermoHydraulics_pal — Thermal-Hydraulics toolbox
      • Bache — Thermal-hydraulic tank (reservoir)
      • PerteDP — Thermal-hydraulic pipe
      • PuitsP — Thermal-hydraulic drain (well)
      • SourceP — Thermal-hydraulic constant pressure source
      • VanneReglante — Thermal-hydraulic control valve
    • User defined functions palette
      • Userdefinedfunctions_pal — User defined functions palette
      • CBLOCK — New C
      • DSUPER — Masked super block
      • EXPRESSION — Mathematical expression
      • MBLOCK — Modelica generic block
      • SUPER_f — Super block
      • c_block — C language
      • fortran_block — Fortran
      • generic_block3 — Generic block
      • scifunc_block_m — Scilab function block
    • Zero crossing detection palette
      • Zerocrossingdetection_pal — Zero crossing detection palette
      • GENERAL_f — GENERAL_f title
      • NEGTOPOS_f — Threshold negative to positive
      • POSTONEG_f — Threshold positive to negative
      • ZCROSS_f — Threshold detection at zero
  • Programming xcos Blocks
    • C Computational Functions
      • C_macros — Utilities C macros
      • C_struct — C Block structure of a computational function
      • C_utils — Utilities C functions
    • Scilab Computational Functions
      • sci_struct — Scicos block structure of a scilab computational function
    • Utilities Functions
      • curblock — Return the current called xcos block during the simulation
      • getblocklabel — Get the label of a scicos block
      • getscicosvars — Supervisor utility function
      • phase_simulation — Get the current simulation phase
      • pointer_xproperty — Get the type of a continuous time state variable
      • scicos_time — Returns the current time during simulation
      • set_blockerror — set the block error number
      • set_xproperty — Set the type of a continuous time state variable
  • Scilab Data Structures
    • Blocks
      • scicos_block — Define a block structure
      • scicos_graphics — Define a graphics structure
      • scicos_model — Define a model structure
    • Compilation/Simulation
      • scicos_cpr — Compiled Scicos structure
      • scicos_sim — Define a sim structure
      • scicos_state — Define a state structure
    • Diagram
      • scicos_diagram — Define a scs_m structure
      • scicos_params — Define a param structure
    • Links
      • scicos_link — Define a link structure
  • Scilab Utilities Functions
    • block_parameter_error — Displays a parameter input error box for an Xcos block
    • buildouttb — Build of the sublist %cpr.state.outtb
    • create_palette — Palette generator
    • getModelicaPath — Get the Modelica directory path needed by Xcos diagram containing Modelica blocks
    • get_scicos_version — Get the current Scicos version
    • importXcosDiagram — Import an Xcos diagram on Scilab
    • loadScicos — Load the Xcos simulation native library.
    • loadXcosLibs — Load most of the Xcos macros
    • scicos_debug — Set the level of the Scicos debugging
    • var2vec — Transform a scilab variable in a vector of double
    • vec2var — Transform a vector of double in a scilab variable
    • xcosPal — Instanciate a new Xcos palette on Scilab.
    • xcosPalAdd — Add a palette to the Scilab/Xcos palette manager. Optional property can be added to set the category of the palette.
    • xcosPalAddBlock — Add a block to a Scilab/Xcos palette instance. Some optional properties can be added to customize the palette icon and the style of the block.
    • xcosPalExport — Export a palette instance to a path.
  • xcos — Block diagram editor and GUI for the hybrid simulator
  • xcos_menu_entries — Xcos editor menu entries
• Spreadsheet
  • read_csv — Read comma-separated value file
  • readxls — reads an Excel file
  • write_csv — Write comma-separated value file
  • xls_open — Open an Excel file for reading
  • xls_read — read a sheet in an Excel file
• Shell
  • clc — Clear Command Window
  • lines — rows and columns used for display
  • prompt — Get/Set current prompt
  • tohome — Move the cursor to the upper left corner of the Command Window
• Console
  • console — Keyboard Shortcuts in the Console Window
• Completion
  • completion — returns words that start with the text you pass as parameter.
• History manager
  • addhistory — add lines to current history.
  • displayhistory — displays current scilab history
  • gethistory — returns current scilab history in a string matrix
  • gethistoryfile — get filename used for scilab's history
  • historymanager — enable or disable history manager
  • historysize — get number of lines in history
  • loadhistory — load a history file
  • removelinehistory — remove the Nth line in history.
  • resethistory — Deletes all entries in the scilab history.
  • saveafterncommands — Save the history file after n statements are added to the file.
  • saveconsecutivecommands — Save consecutive duplicate commands.
  • savehistory — save the current history in a file
  • sethistoryfile — set filename for scilab history
• Matlab binary files I/O
  • loadmatfile — loads a Matlab V6 MAT-file (binary or ASCII) into Scilab
  • matfile_close — Closes a Matlab V5 binary MAT-file.
  • matfile_listvar — Lists variables of a Matlab V5 binary MAT-file.
  • matfile_open — Opens a Matlab V5 binary MAT-file.
  • matfile_varreadnext — Reads next variable in a Matlab V5 binary MAT-file.
  • matfile_varwrite — Write a variable in a Matlab V5 binary MAT-file.
  • savematfile — write a Matlab MAT-file (binary or ASCII)
• Matlab to Scilab Conversion Tips
  • Matlab-Scilab equivalents
    • A
      • m2sci_abs — Absolute value and complex magnitude
      • m2sci_acos — Inverse cosine
      • m2sci_acosh — Inverse hyperbolic cosine
      • m2sci_acot — Inverse cotangent
      • m2sci_acoth — Inverse hyperbolic cotangent
      • m2sci_acsc — Inverse cosecant
      • m2sci_acsch — Inverse hyperbolic cosecant
      • m2sci_all — Test to determine if all elements are nonzero
      • m2sci_angle — Phase angle
      • m2sci_any — Test to determine if any nonzeros elements
      • m2sci_asec — Inverse secant
      • m2sci_asech — Inverse hyperbolic secant
      • m2sci_asin — Inverse sine
      • m2sci_asinh — Inverse hyperbolic sine
      • m2sci_atan — Two-quadrant inverse tangent
      • m2sci_atan2 — Four-quadrant inverse tangent
      • m2sci_atanh — Inverse hyperbolic tangent
    • B
      • m2sci_balance — Diagonal scaling to improve eigenvalue accuracy
      • m2sci_bar — Bar histogram
      • m2sci_barh — Bar histogram horizontal
      • m2sci_beep — Produce a beep sound
      • m2sci_besseli — Modified Bessel functions of the first kind
      • m2sci_besselj — Bessel functions of the first kind
      • m2sci_besselk — Modified Bessel functions of the second kind
      • m2sci_bessely — Bessel functions of the second kind
      • m2sci_beta — Beta function
      • m2sci_bin2dec — Returns the integer corresponding to a Given binary representation
      • m2sci_bitand — The AND of two integers
      • m2sci_bitcmp — The binary complementary of an integer
      • m2sci_bitget — Gets the bit of an integer whose the positon is given in the input argument
      • m2sci_bitor — The OR of two integers
      • m2sci_bitxor — Returns the exclusive OR of two integers
      • m2sci_blanks — A string of blanks
      • m2sci_box — Display axes border
      • m2sci_break — Terminate execution of a for loop or while loop
    • C
      • m2sci_case — Case switch
      • m2sci_cat — Arrays concatenation
      • m2sci_cd — Change/get working directory
      • m2sci_ceil — Round up
      • m2sci_cell — Create cell array
      • m2sci_cell2mat — Convert a cell array into a matrix
      • m2sci_cellstr — Convert strings vector (or strings matrix) into a cell of strings
      • m2sci_chol — Cholesky factorization
      • m2sci_cla — Clear current axes
      • m2sci_clc — Clear Command Window
      • m2sci_clear — Remove items from workspace, freeing up system memory
      • m2sci_clf — Clear current figure window
      • m2sci_clock — Current time as a date vector
      • m2sci_close — Delete specified figure
      • m2sci_closereq — Default figure close request function
      • m2sci_colordef — Set default property values to display different color schemes
      • m2sci_complex — Returns the complex form corresponding to the given real part and imaginary part
      • m2sci_continue — Keyword to pass control to the next iteration of a loop
      • m2sci_conv — Convolution
      • m2sci_cos — Cosine
      • m2sci_cosh — Hyperbolic cosine
      • m2sci_cot — Cotangent
      • m2sci_coth — Hyperbolic cotangent
      • m2sci_cputime — Elapsed CPU time
      • m2sci_csc — Cosecant
      • m2sci_csch — Hyperbolic cosecant
      • m2sci_cumprod — Cumulative product
      • m2sci_cumsum — Cumulative sum
      • m2sci_conj — Complex conjugate
    • D
      • m2sci_date — Current date string
      • m2sci_dec2bin — The binary representation of a decimal number
      • m2sci_dec2hex — Decimal to hexadecimal number conversion
      • m2sci_delete — Delete files or graphics objects
      • m2sci_det — Determinant
      • m2sci_diag — Diagonal including or extracting
      • m2sci_diary — Save session to a file
      • m2sci_diff — Differences and approximate derivatives
      • m2sci_dir — Display directory listing
      • m2sci_disp — Display text or array
      • m2sci_display — Overloaded method to display an object
      • m2sci_doc — Display online documentation
      • m2sci_docopt — Web browser for UNIX platforms
      • m2sci_dos — Execute a UNIX command and return result
      • m2sci_double — Conversion to double precision
      • m2sci_drawnow — Complete pending drawing events
    • E
      • m2sci_echo — Echo lines during execution
      • m2sci_eig — Find eigenvalues and eigenvectors
      • m2sci_else — Conditionally execute statements
      • m2sci_elseif — Conditionally execute statements
      • m2sci_erf — Error function
      • m2sci_erfc — Complementary error function
      • m2sci_erfcx — Scaled complementary error function
      • m2sci_error — Display error messages
      • m2sci_etime — Elapsed time
      • m2sci_eval — Execute a string containing an instruction/expression
      • m2sci_exist — Check if a variable or file exists
      • m2sci_exit — Ends current session
      • m2sci_exp — Exponential
      • m2sci_expm — Matrix exponential
      • m2sci_eye — Identity matrix
    • F
      • m2sci_factor — Prime numbers decomposition
      • m2sci_false — False array
      • m2sci_fclose — Close one or more open files
      • m2sci_feof — Test for end-of-file
      • m2sci_ferror — Query about errors in file input or output
      • m2sci_feval — Function evaluation
      • m2sci_fft — Discrete Fourier transform
      • m2sci_fftshift — Shift zero-frequency component of discrete Fourier transform to center of spectrum
      • m2sci_fgetl — Read line(s) from file, discard newline character
      • m2sci_fgets — Read line from file, keep newline character
      • m2sci_fileparts — Return filename parts
      • m2sci_filesep — Return the directory separator for this platform
      • m2sci_find — Find indices and values of nonzero elements
      • m2sci_findstr — Find one string within another
      • m2sci_fix — Round towards zero
      • m2sci_fliplr — Flip matrix in left/right direction
      • m2sci_flipud — Flip matrix in up/down direction
      • m2sci_floor — Round down
      • m2sci_fopen — Open a file or obtain information about open files
      • m2sci_for — Repeat statements a specific number of times
      • m2sci_format — Control display format for output
      • m2sci_fprintf — Write formatted data to file
      • m2sci_fread — Read binary data to a file
      • m2sci_frewind — Move the file position indicator to the beginning of an open file
      • m2sci_fscanf — Read formatted data to file
      • m2sci_fseek — Set file position indicator
      • m2sci_ftell — Get file position indicator
      • m2sci_full — Convert sparse matrix to full matrix
      • m2sci_fullfile — Build a full filename from parts
      • m2sci_function — Function definition
      • m2sci_fwrite — Write binary data to a file
    • G
      • m2sci_gamma — Gamma function
      • m2sci_gammaln — Logarithm of gamma function
      • m2sci_getenv — Get environment variable
      • m2sci_global — Define a global variable
      • m2sci_graymon — Set graphics defaults for gray-scale monitors
      • m2sci_grid — Grid lines for two- and three-dimensional plots
    • H
      • m2sci_hankel — Hankel matrix
      • m2sci_help — Display help
      • m2sci_helpbrowser — Display Help browser for access to full online documentation
      • m2sci_helpdesk — Display Help browser
      • m2sci_helpwin — Provide access to and display help for all functions
      • m2sci_hess — Hessenberg form of a matrix
      • m2sci_hold — Hold current graph
      • m2sci_home — Move the cursor to the upper left corner of the Command Window
      • m2sci_horzcat — Horizontal concatenation
    • I
      • m2sci_if — Conditionally execute statements
      • m2sci_ifft — Inverse discrete Fourier transform
      • m2sci_imag — Complex imaginary part
      • m2sci_input — Request user input
      • m2sci_int16 — Convert to 16-bit signed integer
      • m2sci_int32 — Convert to 32-bit signed integer
      • m2sci_int8 — Convert to 8-bit signed integer
      • m2sci_interp1 — One_dimension interpolation function
      • m2sci_inv — Matrix inverse
      • m2sci_isa — Detect an object of a given type
      • m2sci_iscell — Determine if input is a cell array
      • m2sci_ischar — Determine if item is a character array
      • m2sci_isdir — Determine if item is a directory
      • m2sci_isempty — True for empty matrix
      • m2sci_isequal — Determine if arrays are numerically equal
      • m2sci_isfield — Determine if input is a structure array field
      • m2sci_isfinite — True for finite elements
      • m2sci_isglobal — Determine if item is a global variable
      • m2sci_ishandle — Determines if values are valid graphics object handles
      • m2sci_ishold — Return hold state
      • m2sci_isinf — True for infinite elements
      • m2sci_isinteger — Detect whether an array has integer data type
      • m2sci_isletter — True for letters of the alphabet
      • m2sci_islogical — Determine if item is a logical array
      • m2sci_isnan — Detect NaN elements of an array
      • m2sci_isnumeric — Determine if input is a numeric array
      • m2sci_ispc — Determine if PC (Windows) version
      • m2sci_isreal — Determine if all array elements are real numbers
      • m2sci_isscalar — Determine if input is scalar
      • m2sci_isspace — Detect elements that are ASCII white spaces
      • m2sci_issparse — Test if matrix is sparse
      • m2sci_isstr — Determine if item is a character array
      • m2sci_isstruct — Determine if input is a structure array
      • m2sci_isunix — Determine if Unix version
      • m2sci_isvector — Determine if input is a vector
    • K
      • m2sci_keyboard — Invoke the keyboard in a file
      • m2sci_kron — Kronecker tensor product
    • L
      • m2sci_length — Length of vector
      • m2sci_linspace — Linearly spaced vector
      • m2sci_load — Load workspace variables from disk
      • m2sci_log — Natural logarithm
      • m2sci_log10 — Common (base 10) logarithm
      • m2sci_log2 — Base 2 logarithm and dissect floating point number
      • m2sci_logical — Convert numeric values to logical
      • m2sci_lookfor — Search for specified keyword in all help entries
      • m2sci_lower — Convert string to lower case
      • m2sci_lu — LU matrix factorization
    • M
      • m2sci_max — Maximum
      • m2sci_min — Minimum
      • m2sci_mkdir — Make new folder
      • m2sci_mod — Modulus after division
      • m2sci_more — Display Command Window output one screenful at a time
    • N
      • m2sci_nargin — Number of function input arguments
      • m2sci_nargout — Number of function output arguments
      • m2sci_ndims — Number of array dimensions
      • m2sci_norm — Vector and matrix norms
      • m2sci_num2str — Number to string conversion
    • O
      • m2sci_ones — Create an array of all ones
      • m2sci_otherwise — Default part of switch/select statement
      • m2sci_pause — Halt execution temporarily
    • Operators
      • m2sci_addition — Plus
      • m2sci_and — Logical AND
      • m2sci_colon — Colon
      • m2sci_elementwise_left_division — Elementwise left division
      • m2sci_elementwise_multiplication — Elementwise multiplication
      • m2sci_elementwise_power — Elementwise exponent
      • m2sci_elementwise_right_division — Elementwise right division
      • m2sci_elementwise_transpose — Elementwise transpose
      • m2sci_equal — Equal to
      • m2sci_great — Greater than
      • m2sci_great_equal — Greater or equal to
      • m2sci_left_division — Left division
      • m2sci_less — Smaller than
      • m2sci_less_equal — Smaller or equal to
      • m2sci_multiplication — Multiplication
      • m2sci_not — Negation
      • m2sci_not_equal — Not equal to
      • m2sci_or — Logical OR
      • m2sci_power — Exponent
      • m2sci_right_division — Right division
      • m2sci_substraction — Minus
      • m2sci_transpose — Transpose
    • P
      • m2sci_perms — Array of all permutations of vector components
      • m2sci_permute — Permute the dimensions of an array
      • m2sci_pie — circular graphic
      • m2sci_plot — Linear 2-D plot
      • m2sci_pow2 — Base 2 power and scale floating-point numbers
      • m2sci_primes — Returns the primes numbers included between 1 and given number
      • m2sci_prod — Product of array elements
    • Q
      • m2sci_qr — Orthogonal-triangular decomposition
      • m2sci_quit — Terminate session
    • R
      • m2sci_rand — Uniformly distributed random numbers and arrays
      • m2sci_randn — Normally distributed random numbers and arrays
      • m2sci_rcond — Matrix reciprocal condition number estimate
      • m2sci_real — Real part of a complex number
      • m2sci_realmax — Largest positive floating-point number
      • m2sci_realmin — Smallest positive floating-point number
      • m2sci_rem — Remainder after division
      • m2sci_repmat — Replicate and tile an array
      • m2sci_reshape — Reshape array
      • m2sci_return — Return to the invoking function
      • m2sci_round — Round to nearest integer
    • S
      • m2sci_save — Save workspace variables from disk
      • m2sci_schur — Schur decomposition
      • m2sci_setstr — Set string flag
      • m2sci_sign — Signum function
      • m2sci_sin — Sine
      • m2sci_sinh — Hyperbolic sine
      • m2sci_size — Array dimension
      • m2sci_sort — Sort elements in ascending order
      • m2sci_sparse — Create sparse matrix
      • m2sci_sqrt — Square root
      • m2sci_strcmp — Compare strings
      • m2sci_strcmpi — Compare strings ignoring case
      • m2sci_strfind — Find one string within another
      • m2sci_strrep — String search and replace
      • m2sci_struct — Create struct array
      • m2sci_sum — Sum of array elements
      • m2sci_surf — 3-D surface plot
      • m2sci_svd — Singular value decomposition
      • m2sci_switch — Switch among several cases based on expression
    • T
      • m2sci_tan — Tangent
      • m2sci_tanh — Hyperbolic tangent
      • m2sci_tic — Starts a stopwatch timer
      • m2sci_title — Display a title on a graphic window
      • m2sci_toc — Read the stopwatch timer
      • m2sci_toeplitz — Toeplitz matrix
      • m2sci_tril — Lower triangular part of a matrix
      • m2sci_triu — Upper triangular part of a matrix
      • m2sci_true — True array
      • m2sci_type — List file
    • U
      • m2sci_uigetdir — Standard dialog box for selecting a directory
      • m2sci_uint16 — Convert to 16-bit unsigned integer
      • m2sci_uint32 — Convert to 32-bit unsigned integer
      • m2sci_uint8 — Convert to 8-bit unsigned integer
      • m2sci_unix — Execute a UNIX command and return result
      • m2sci_upper — Convert string to upper case
    • V
      • m2sci_varargin — Pass variable numbers of arguments
      • m2sci_varargout — Return variable numbers of arguments
      • m2sci_vertcat — Vertical concatenation
    • Variables
      • m2sci_ans — The most recent answer
      • m2sci_end — Last index
      • m2sci_eps — Floating-point relative accuracy
      • m2sci_i — Imaginary unit
      • m2sci_j — Imaginary unit
      • m2sci_pi — Ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
    • W
      • m2sci_waitforbuttonpress — Wait for key or mouse button press
      • m2sci_warning — Display warning messages
      • m2sci_while — Repeat statements an indefinite number of times
      • m2sci_who — List variables in the workspace
      • m2sci_whos — List variables in the workspace
      • m2sci_winqueryreg — Get item from Microsoft Windows registry
    • X
      • m2sci_xlabel — Display a string along the x axis
    • Y
      • m2sci_ylabel — Display a string along the y axis
    • Z
      • m2sci_zeros — Create an array of all zeros
      • m2sci_zlabel — Display a string along the z axis
  • About_M2SCI_tools — Generally speaking about tools to convert Matlab files to Scilab
  • Contents — Create a tree containing contents inference data
  • Cste — Create a tree representing a constant
  • Equal — Create a tree representing an instruction
  • Funcall — Create a tree representing a function call
  • Infer — Create a tree containing inference data
  • MatlabScilab_character_strings — Generally speaking about...
  • Operation — Create a tree representing an operation
  • Type — Create a tree containing type inference data
  • Variable — Create a tree representing a variable
  • get_contents_infer — Search for information in a "M2SCi tlist" contents
  • m2scideclare — Giving tips to help M2SCI...
  • matfile2sci — converts a Matlab 5 MAT-file into a Scilab binary file
  • mfile2sci — Matlab M-file to Scilab conversion function
  • sci_files — How to write conversion functions
  • translatepaths — convert a set of Matlab M-files directories to Scilab
• Compatibility Functions
  • asciimat — string matrix ascii conversions
  • firstnonsingleton — Finds first dimension which is not 1
  • makecell — Creates a cell array.
  • mstr2sci — character string matrix to character matrix conversion
  • mtlb_0 — Matlab non-conjugate transposition emulation function
  • mtlb_a — Matlab addition emulation function
  • mtlb_all — Matlab all emulation function
  • mtlb_any — Matlab any emulation function
  • mtlb_axis — Matlab axis emulation function
  • mtlb_beta — Matlab beta emulation function
  • mtlb_box — Matlab box emulation function
  • mtlb_close — Matlab close emulation function
  • mtlb_colordef — Matlab colordef emulation function
  • mtlb_conv — Matlab conv emulation function
  • mtlb_cumprod — Matlab cumprod emulation function
  • mtlb_cumsum — Matlab cumsum emulation function
  • mtlb_dec2hex — Matlab dec2hex emulation function
  • mtlb_delete — Matlab delete emulation function
  • mtlb_diag — Matlab diag emulation function
  • mtlb_diff — Matlab diff emulation function
  • mtlb_dir — Matlab dir emulation function
  • mtlb_double — Matlab double emulation function
  • mtlb_e — Matlab extraction emulation function
  • mtlb_echo — Matlab echo emulation function
  • mtlb_eval — Matlab eval emulation function
  • mtlb_exist — Matlab exist emulation function
  • mtlb_eye — Matlab eye emulation function
  • mtlb_false — Matlab false emulation function
  • mtlb_fft — Matlab fft emulation function
  • mtlb_fftshift — Matlab fftshift emulation function
  • mtlb_find — Matlab find emulation function
  • mtlb_findstr — Matlab findstr emulation function
  • mtlb_fliplr — Matlab fliplr emulation function
  • mtlb_fopen — Matlab fopen emulation function
  • mtlb_format — Matlab format emulation function
  • mtlb_fprintf — Matlab fprintf emulation function
  • mtlb_fread — Matlab fread emulation function
  • mtlb_fscanf — Matlab fscanf emulation function
  • mtlb_full — Matlab full emulation function
  • mtlb_fwrite — Matlab fwrite emulation function
  • mtlb_grid — Matlab grid emulation function
  • mtlb_hold — Matlab hold emulation function
  • mtlb_i — Matlab insertion emulation function
  • mtlb_ifft — Matlab ifft emulation function
  • mtlb_imp — Matlab colon emulation function
  • mtlb_int16 — Matlab int16 emulation function
  • mtlb_int32 — Matlab int32 emulation function
  • mtlb_int8 — Matlab int8 emulation function
  • mtlb_is — Matlab string insertion emulation function
  • mtlb_isa — Matlab isa emulation function
  • mtlb_isfield — Matlab isfield emulation function
  • mtlb_isletter — Matlab isletter emulation function
  • mtlb_isspace — Matlab isspace emulation function
  • mtlb_l — Matlab left division emulation function
  • mtlb_legendre — Matlab legendre emulation function
  • mtlb_linspace — Matlab linspace emulation function
  • mtlb_logic — Matlab logical operators emulation function
  • mtlb_logical — Matlab logical emulation function
  • mtlb_lower — Matlab lower emulation function
  • mtlb_max — Matlab max emulation function
  • mtlb_min — Matlab min emulation function
  • mtlb_more — Matlab more emulation function
  • mtlb_num2str — Matlab num2str emulation function
  • mtlb_ones — Matlab ones emulation function
  • mtlb_plot — Matlab plot emulation function
  • mtlb_prod — Matlab prod emulation function
  • mtlb_rand — Matlab rand emulation function
  • mtlb_randn — Matlab randn emulation function
  • mtlb_rcond — Matlab rcond emulation function
  • mtlb_realmax — Matlab realmax emulation function
  • mtlb_realmin — Matlab realmin emulation function
  • mtlb_repmat — Matlab repmat emulation function
  • mtlb_s — Matlab substraction emulation function
  • mtlb_setstr — Matlab setstr emulation function
  • mtlb_size — Matlab size emulation function
  • mtlb_sort — Matlab sort emulation function
  • mtlb_strcmp — Matlab strcmp emulation function
  • mtlb_strcmpi — Matlab strcmpi emulation function
  • mtlb_strfind — Matlab strfind emulation function
  • mtlb_strrep — Matlab strrep emulation function
  • mtlb_sum — Matlab sum emulation function
  • mtlb_t — Matlab transposition emulation function
  • mtlb_toeplitz — Matlab toeplitz emulation function
  • mtlb_tril — Matlab tril emulation function
  • mtlb_triu — Matlab triu emulation function
  • mtlb_true — Matlab true emulation function
  • mtlb_uint16 — Matlab uint16 emulation function
  • mtlb_uint32 — Matlab uint32 emulation function
  • mtlb_uint8 — Matlab uint8 emulation function
  • mtlb_upper — Matlab upper emulation function
  • mtlb_var — Matlab var emulation function
  • mtlb_zeros — Matlab zeros emulation function
• Maple Interface
  • sci2map — Scilab to Maple variable conversion
• Overloading
  • overloading — display, functions and operators overloading capabilities
• Functions
  • profiling
    • add_profiling — Adds profiling instructions to a function.
    • plotprofile — extracts and displays execution profiles of a Scilab function
    • profile — extract execution profiles of a Scilab function
    • remove_profiling — Removes profiling instructions toout of a function.
    • reset_profiling — Resets profiling counters of a function.
    • showprofile — extracts and displays execution profiles of a Scilab function
  • bytecode — given a function returns the "bytecode" of a function in a Scilab array and conversely.
  • bytecodewalk — walk in function bytecode applying transformation.
  • deff — on-line definition of function
  • exec — script file execution
  • execstr — execute Scilab code in strings
  • fun2string — generates ascii definition of a scilab function
  • function — closes a function definition
  • functions — Scilab procedures and Scilab objects
  • genlib — build library from functions in given directory
  • get_function_path — get source file path of a library function
  • getd — getting all functions defined in a directory
  • head_comments — display scilab function header comments
  • lib — library definition
  • librarieslist — get scilab libraries
  • library — library datatype description
  • libraryinfo — get macros and path of a scilab library
  • listfunctions — properties of all functions in the workspace
  • macro — Scilab procedure and Scilab object
  • macrovar — variables of function
  • recompilefunction — recompiles a scilab function, changing its type
  • varargin — variable numbers of arguments in an input argument list
  • varargout — variable numbers of arguments in an output argument list
  • whereis — name of library containing a function
• Development tools
  • bench_run — Launch benchmark tests
  • test_run — Launch tests
• Demo Tools
  • demo_begin — begin a demonstration
  • demo_choose — create a dialog box for the choice of options
  • demo_compiler — test the presence of a compileur
  • demo_end — completes a demonstration
  • demo_file_choice — choose and executes an item within a list
  • demo_function_choice — choose and execute an item within a list
  • demo_mdialog — create a dialog box
  • demo_message — display a message
  • demo_run — script file execution
• Dynamic/incremental Link
  • G_make — call make or nmake
  • addinter — new functions interface dynamic link at run time.
  • c_link — check incremental/dynamic link
  • call — Fortran or C user routines call
  • chooselcccompiler — moved as toolbox in ATOMS
  • configure_msifort — set environments variables for Intel Fortran Compiler (Windows).
  • configure_msvc — set environments variables for Microsoft C Compiler.
  • dllinfo — provides information about the format and symbols provided in executable and DLL files (Windows).
  • findmsifortcompiler — detects Intel fortran Compiler
  • findmsvccompiler — detects Microsoft C Compiler
  • fort — Fortran or C user routines call
  • getdynlibext — get the extension of dynamic libraries on your operating system.
  • haveacompiler — detect if you have a C compiler.
  • ilib_build — utility for shared library management
  • ilib_compile — ilib_build utility: executes the Makefile produced by ilib_gen_Make
  • ilib_for_link — utility for shared library management with link
  • ilib_gen_Make — utility for ilib_build: produces a Makefile for building shared libraries
  • ilib_gen_cleaner — utility for ilib_build: generates a cleaner file
  • ilib_gen_gateway — utility for ilib_build, generates a gateway file.
  • ilib_gen_loader — utility for ilib_build: generates a loader file
  • ilib_mex_build — utility for mex library management
  • ilib_verbose — set level of display used by dynamic link functions.
  • link — dynamic linker
  • supported_compilers —
  • ulink — unlink a dynamically linked shared object
• ATOMS
  • _atomsGettingStarted —
  • atoms —
  • atomsAutoloadAdd — Add one or several modules to autoload
  • atomsAutoloadDel — Remove one or several modules from the autoload system
  • atomsAutoloadList — Get the list of modules registered to autoload
  • atomsCategoryList — List available categories
  • atomsDepTreeShow — Show the dependency tree of a module
  • atomsGetInstalled — Get the list of installed external modules
  • atomsGetLoaded — Get the list of loaded external modules
  • atomsInstall — Install one or several external modules
  • atomsIsInstalled — Determines whether the module is installed. Returns true if the module is installed, false otherwise.
  • atomsIsLoaded — determines whether a module is loaded or not
  • atomsList — List available external modules
  • atomsLoad — Install one or several external modules
  • atomsRemove — Remove one or several modules
  • atomsRepositoryAdd — Add one or several URLs to the list of managed repositories
  • atomsRepositoryDel — Remove one or several URLs from the list of managed repositories
  • atomsRepositoryList — Get the list of managed repositories
  • atomsSearch — Searches for external modules.
  • atomsSetConfig — Manage ATOMS system parameters
  • atomsShow — Show the caracteristics of a module
  • atomsSystemUpdate — Update the list of available modules
  • atomsUpdate — Update one or several external modules
• Tcl/Tk Interface
  • ScilabEval — tcl instruction : Evaluate a string with scilab interpreter
  • TCL_CreateSlave — Create a TCL slave interpreter
  • TCL_DeleteInterp — delete TCL interpreter
  • TCL_EvalFile — Reads and evaluate a tcl/tk file
  • TCL_EvalStr — Evaluate a string whithin the Tcl/Tk interpreter
  • TCL_ExistArray — Return %T if a tcl array exists
  • TCL_ExistInterp — Return %T if a tcl slave interperter exists
  • TCL_ExistVar — Return %T if a tcl variable exists
  • TCL_GetVar — Get a tcl/tk variable value
  • TCL_GetVersion — get the version of the TCL/TK library at runtime.
  • TCL_SetVar — Set a tcl/tk variable value
  • TCL_UnsetVar — Remove a tcl variable
  • TCL_UpVar — Make a link from a tcl source variable to a tcl destination variable
  • config — Scilab general configuration.
  • winclose — close windows created by sciGUI
  • winlist — Return the winId of current window created by sciGUI
• Text editor (Scinotes)
  • edit_error — opens in scilab editor the source of the last recorded error
  • editor — Scinotes: Embedded Scilab text editor
• UI Data
  • browsevar — Scilab variable browser
  • editvar — Scilab variable editor
• Online help management
  • add_help_chapter — Add an entry in the help list
  • apropos — searches keywords in Scilab help
  • del_help_chapter — Delete an entry in the help list
  • help — on-line help command
  • help_from_sci — Generate help files and demo files from the head comments section of a .sci source file.
  • help_skeleton — build the skeleton of the xml help file associated to a Scilab function
  • how_to_link_toolbox_help — How to make hyperlink in toolbox help pointing to Scilab's items
  • man — on line help XML file description format
  • manedit — editing a manual item
  • percenthelps — Variable defining the path of help directories
  • xmltochm — converts xml Scilab help files to Microsoft Compressed HTML format (Windows)
  • xmltohtml — converts xml Scilab help files to HTML format
  • xmltojar — converts xml Scilab help files to javaHelp format
  • xmltopdf — converts xml Scilab help files to pdf format
  • xmltops — converts xml Scilab help files to postscript format
• Parallel
  • parallel_concurrency — query about the concurrency of the current execution context
  • parallel_run — parallel calls to a function
• PVM parallel Toolbox
  • pvm — communications with other applications using Parallel Virutal Machine
  • pvm_addhosts — add hosts to the virtual machine.
  • pvm_barrier — blocks the calling process until all processes in a group have called it.
  • pvm_bcast — broacasts a message to all members of a group
  • pvm_bufinfo — Returns information about a message buffer.
  • pvm_config — sends a message
  • pvm_delhosts — deletes hosts from the virtual machine.
  • pvm_error — Prints message describing an error returned by a PVM call
  • pvm_exit — tells the local pvmd that this process is leaving PVM.
  • pvm_f772sci — Convert a F77 complex into a complex scalar
  • pvm_get_timer — Gets the system's notion of the current time.
  • pvm_getinst — returns the instance number in a group of a PVM process.
  • pvm_gettid — returns the tid of the process identified by a group name and instance number
  • pvm_gsize — returns the number of members presently in the named group.
  • pvm_halt — stops the PVM daemon
  • pvm_joingroup — enrolls the calling process in a named group.
  • pvm_kill — Terminates a specified PVM process.
  • pvm_lvgroup — Unenrolls the calling process from a named group.
  • pvm_mytid — returns the tid of the calling process.
  • pvm_parent — tid of the process that spawned the calling process.
  • pvm_probe — Check if message has arrived.
  • pvm_recv — receive a message.
  • pvm_reduce — Performs a reduce operation over members of the specified group
  • pvm_sci2f77 — Convert complex scalar into F77
  • pvm_send — immediately sends (or multicast) data.
  • pvm_set_timer — Sets the system's notion of the current time.
  • pvm_spawn — Starts new Scilab processes.
  • pvm_spawn_independent — Starts new PVM processes.
  • pvm_start — Start the PVM daemon
  • pvm_tasks — information about the tasks running on the virtual machine.
  • pvm_tidtohost — returns the host of the specified PVM process.
  • pvmd3 — PVM daemon
• Modules manager
  • tbx_build_cleaner — Generate a cleaner.sce script (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_build_gateway — Build a gateway (toolbox compilation process)
  • thx_build_gateway_clean — Generate a cleaner_gateway.sce script (toolbox compilation process)
  • thx_build_gateway_loader — Generate a loader_gateway.sce script (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_build_help — Generate help files (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_build_help_loader — Generate a addchapter.sce script (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_build_loader — Generate a loader.sce script (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_build_macros — Compile macros (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_build_src — Build sources (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_builder_gateway — Run builder_gateway.sce script if it exists (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_builder_gateway_lang — Run builder_gateway_(language).sce script if it exists (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_builder_help — Run builder_help.sce script if it exists (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_builder_help_lang — Run build_help.sce script if it exists (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_builder_macros — Run buildmacros.sce script if it exists (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_builder_src — Run builder_src.sce script if it exists (toolbox compilation process)
  • tbx_builder_src_lang — Run builder_(language).sce script if it exists (toolbox compilation process)
• Localization
  • dgettext — get text translated into the current locale and a specific domain domain.
  • getdefaultlanguage — getdefaultlanguage() returns the default language used by Scilab.
  • getlanguage — getlanguage() returns current language used by Scilab.
  • gettext — get text translated into the current locale and domain.
  • LANGUAGE — Variable defining the language (OBSOLETE)
  • setdefaultlanguage — sets and saves the internal LANGUAGE value.
  • setlanguage — Sets the internal LANGUAGE value.
• JVM
  • javaclasspath — set and get dynamic Java class path
  • javalibrarypath — set and get dynamic java.library.path
  • jre_path — returns Java Runtime Environment used by Scilab
  • system_getproperty — gets the system property indicated by a specified key.
  • system_setproperty — set a system property indicated by a specified key and value.
  • with_embedded_jre — checks if scilab uses a embedded JRE
• API Scilab
  • boolean
    • isBooleanType — Check if it is a boolean variable.
    • getScalarBoolean — Read scalar boolean data from a gateway argument.
    • createScalarBoolean — Create scalar boolean variable in Scilab memory.
    • booleanExample — Boolean use case.
  • Boolean Sparse
    • isBooleanSparseType — Check if it is a boolean sparse variable.
    • getAllocatedBooleanSparseMatrix — Get sparse matrix attributs.
    • freeAllocatedBooleanSparse — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedBooleanSparseMatrix function.
    • booleanSparseExample — Boolean sparse use case.
  • Scilab Gateway API
    • How to
      • CallingAScilabFunctionFromACInterface — Calling a scilab function (macros) from a C interface
      • HowToAccessAMatrix_1 — How to access a matrix using the C gateway functions
      • HowToCheckParameters — how to check parameter send to an interface using the C gateway functions
      • HowToCreateAndAccessAList_1 — How to create and access a list using the C gateway functions
      • HowToDealWithOptionalParameters — how to deal with optional parameters send to an interface using the C gateway functions
    • CheckColumn — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a column vector or not
    • CheckDimProp — C interface function which checks the comatibility between 2 arguments send to the C function
    • CheckDims — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function has the required dimensions
    • CheckLength — C interface function which checks the length of a vector send as a parameter to the C function
    • CheckLhs — C macro which checks the number of output arguments present in the calling Scilab function.
    • CheckRhs — C macro which checks the number of input arguments present in the calling Scilab function.
    • CheckRow — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a row vector or not
    • CheckSameDims — C interface function which checks if two parameters send to the C function have the same size
    • CheckScalar — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a scalar or not
    • CheckSquare — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a square matrix or not
    • CheckVector — C interface function which checks if a parameter send to the C function is a vector (column or row) or not
    • CreateListVarFrom — a C interface function which allows to create a new Scilab parameter in a [mt]list
    • CreateListVarFromPtr — a C interface function which allows to create a new Scilab parameter from a pointer in a [mt]list
    • CreateVar — a C gateway function which allows to create a new Scilab parameter
    • FindOpt — C gateway function find the position of an optional argument given its name
    • FirstOpt — C gateway function which returns the position of the first optional parameter
    • GetListRhsVar — a C gateway function which allows to access a parameter stored in a [mt]list transmitted to a Scilab function
    • GetRhsVar — a C gateway function which allows to access an argument transmitted to a Scilab function
    • GetType — C gateway function which returns the type of a parameter in the Scilab memory
    • IsOpt — C gateway function which checks if a parameter is optional and returns the name of the parameter
    • Lhs — A C gateway function which provides the number of output arguments present in the calling Scilab function
    • LhsVar — a C gateway function which specifies which parameters created inside the C gateway will be returned as an output argument into Scilab.
    • NumOpt — C gateway function which returns the number of optional parameters sent to a C function
    • OverLoad — C gateway function which tells Scilab to look for another overloaded function
    • Rhs — A C gateway function which provides the number of input arguments present in the calling Scilab function
    • Scierror — C gateway function which displays an error message to the user (same profil as the printf function) and returns an integer value specifying an error level
    • ScilabCTypes — the C types available in a C gateway
    • get_optionals — C gateway function which initialize the list of optional parameters
    • istk — Return a pointer to an integer to access data stored at a given position in the Scilab memory
    • sci_types — a C enumeration which defines the types available for a variable
    • sciprint — A C gateway function which displays standard messages to the user (same profil as the C printf function)
    • stk — Return a pointer to a double to access data stored at a given position in the Scilab memory
  • double
    • isDoubleType — Check if it is a double variable.
    • getScalarDouble — Get scalar double variable.
    • getScalarComplexDouble — Get scalar complex double variable.
    • createScalarDouble — Create a scalar double in Scilab memory.
    • createScalarComplexDouble — Create a scalar complex double in Scilab memory.
    • doubleExample — Double use case.
  • integer
    • isIntegerType — Check if it is a double variable.
    • getScalarInteger8 — Get scalar integer variable.
    • createScalarInteger8 — Create scalar integer variable.
    • integerExample — Integer use case.
  • List manipulation
    • list_boolean_reading_API — How to read matrix of boolean in a list.
    • list_boolean_writing_API — How to add matrix of boolean in a list.
    • list_bsparse_reading_API — How to read boolean sparse in a list.
    • list_bsparse_writing_API — How to add boolean sparse matrix in a list.
    • list_createlist_API — How to get create a list in Scilab memory.
    • list_double_reading_API — How to read matrix of double in a list.
    • list_double_writing_API — How to add matrix of double in a list.
    • list_getlistitemaddress_API — How to get the address of a list child.
    • list_getlistitemnumber_API — How to get the number of items in a list (list, mlist, tlist).
    • list_integer_reading_API — How to read matrix of integer in a list.
    • list_integer_writing_API — How to add matrix of integer in a list.
    • list_pointer_reading_API — How to read pointer in a list.
    • list_pointer_writing_API — How to add pointer in a list.
    • list_poly_reading_API — How to read matrix of polynomial in a list.
    • list_poly_writing_API — How to add matrix of polynomial in a list.
    • list_sparse_reading_API — How to read sparse in a list.
    • list_sparse_writing_API — How to add sparse matrix in a list.
    • list_string_reading_API — How to read matrix of string in a list.
    • list_string_writing_API — How to add matrix of string in a list.
  • Low level functions
    • boolean_reading_API — How to read matrix of boolean.
    • boolean_writing_API — How to write matrices of boolean.
    • bsparse_reading_API — How to read boolean sparse in a gateway.
    • bsparse_writing_API — How to add boolean sparse matrix in a gateway.
    • Common_getvaraddr_API — How to get the address of an argument or a variable in a gateway.
    • Common_getvardimension_API — How to get the dimensions of an argument or a variable stored as matrix.
    • Common_getvartype_API — How to get the type of an argument or a variable within a gateway.
    • Common_iscomplex_API — How to get the argument or variable complexity.
    • Common_isvarmatrixtype_API — How to know if an argument or a variable is stored as a matrix.
    • Double_management_reading_API — How to read matrices of double in a gateway.
    • Double_management_writing_API — How to write matrices of doubles in a gateway.
    • int_getmatrixofintegerprecision_API — How to get precision of an integer matrix.
    • Integer_management_reading_API — How to read matrices of integer in a gateway.
    • Integer_management_writing_API — How to write matrices of integers in a gateway.
    • Pointer_reading_API — How to read pointer in a gateway.
    • Pointer_writing_API — How to write pointer in a gateway.
    • poly_getpolyvariablename_API — How to get the symbolic variable name.
    • Polynomial_management_reading_API — How to read matrices of polynomials in a gateway.
    • Polynomial_management_writing_API — How to write matrices of polynomials in a gateway.
    • Sparse_management_reading_API — How to read sparse matric in a gateway.
    • Sparse_management_writing_API — How to write sparse matrix in a gateway.
    • String_management_reading_API — How to read matrices of strings in a gateway.
    • String_management_writing_API — How to write matrices of string in a gateway.
  • polynom
    • isPolyType — Check if it is a polynom variable.
    • getAllocatedSinglePoly — Get single polynom variable.
    • getAllocatedSingleComplexPoly — Get single complex polynom variable.
    • getAllocatedMatrixOfPoly — Get matrix of polynom variable.
    • getAllocatedMatrixOfComplexPoly — Get matrix of complex polynom variable.
    • freeAllocatedSinglePoly — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedSinglePoly function.
    • freeAllocatedSingleComplexPoly — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedSingleComplexPoly function.
    • freeAllocatedMatrixOfPoly — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedSinglePoly function.
    • freeAllocatedMatrixOfComplexPoly — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedSinglePoly function.
    • polyExample — Polynom use case.
  • sparse
    • isSparseType — Check if it is a sparse variable.
    • getAllocatedSparseMatrix — Get sparse matrix variable.
    • getAllocatedComplexSparseMatrix — Get complex sparse matrix variable.
    • freeAllocatedSparseMatrix — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedSparseMatrix function.
    • freeAllocatedComplexSparseMatrix — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedComplexSparseMatrix function.
    • sparseExample — Sparse use case.
  • string
    • isStringType — Check if it is a string variable.
    • getAllocatedSingleString — Get single string variable.
    • getAllocatedMatrixOfString — Get matrix of polynom variable.
    • createSingleString — create a single string variable.
    • freeAllocatedSingleString — Free memory allocated by getAllocatedSinglePoly function.
    • freeAllocatedMatrixOfString — Free memory allocated by freeAllocatedMatrixOfString function.
    • stringExample — String use case.
  • api_scilab — api_scilab is the Scilab interface to read/write data from/to Scilab memory
• call_scilab API (Scilab engine)
  • BooleanManagement_callscilab — How to manage Scilab's boolean read and write process using call_scilab and api_scilab
  • ComplexManagement_callscilab — How to manage Scilab's complex variable read and write process using call_scilab
  • DisableInteractiveMode — Disables some features (plotting, gui creation, Tcl/Tk...) and leaves only the computing engine
  • DoubleManagement_callscilab — How to manage Scilab's variable read and write process using call_scilab and api_scilab
  • GetLastJob — Returns the latest job sent to Scilab engine
  • ScilabHaveAGraph — Check if any Scilab graphics have been opened.
  • SendScilabJob — Send a Scilab task from a C/C++ code (call_scilab)
  • SendScilabJobs — Send Scilab tasks from a C/C++ code (call_scilab)
  • StartScilab — Initializes and starts Scilab engine in Call Scilab
  • StringManagement_callscilab — How to manage Scilab's String read and write process using call_scilab and api_scilab
  • TerminateScilab — Stops and terminates Scilab engine in Call Scilab
  • call_scilab — call_scilab is an interface which provides the ability to call Scilab engine from C/C++ code
  • compile_and_run_call_scilab — How to compile a native application based on or using Scilab
  • creadbmat — Read a single boolean or a matrix of boolean from Scilab memory using call_scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: Boolean reading for remplacement.
  • creadchain — Read a single string from Scilab memory using call_scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: String reading for remplacement.
  • creadcmat — Read a single complex or a matrix of complex from Scilab memory using call_scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: Complex double reading for remplacement.
  • creadmat — Read a single double or a matrix of double from Scilab memory using call_scilab. Note that it is the default datatype in Scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: Double reading for remplacement.
  • cwritebmat — Write a single boolean or a matrix of boolean into Scilab memory using call_scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: Boolean writing for remplacement.
  • cwritechain — Write a single string into Scilab memory using call_scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: String writing for remplacement.
  • cwritecmat — Write a single complex or a matrix of complex into Scilab memory using call_scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: Complex double writing for remplacement.
  • cwritemat — Write a single double or a matrix of double into Scilab memory using call_scilab. Note that it is the default datatype in Scilab. Starting with Scilab 5.2, this function is obsolete. See API_Scilab: Double writing for remplacement.
  • fromc — Checks if current Scilab is called from an external C program (by StartScilab).
  • fromjava — Checks if current Scilab is called from javasci
• Java Interface
  • Javasci v1 (deprecated)
    • SciBoolean — Class to use boolean object with scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciBooleanArray — Class to use boolean matrix in Scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciComplex — Class to use complex object with scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciComplexArray — Class to use complex matrix in Scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciDouble — Class to use double object with scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciDoubleArray — Class to use real matrix in Scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciInteger — Class to use integer object with scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciIntegerArray — Class to use int matrix in Scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciString — Map a Java String into a Scilab string. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • SciStringArray — Classe to use String matrix in Scilab. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • javasci.Scilab — This class provides the basic methods to execute Scilab code and scripts. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • compile_and_run_javasci_v1 — How to compile a Java application using Javasci v1. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
    • javasci_faq_v1 — The frequently asked questions - Javasci v1. Deprecated: Please use Javasci v2
  • compile_and_run_javasci_v2 — How to compile a Java application using Javasci v2
  • javasci — Call Scilab engine from a Java application
  • javasci_faq_v2 — The frequently asked questions for Javasci v2
  • javasci_v1_limitations — Why javasci v1 is now deprecated ?
  • javasci_step_by_step — How to write an application based on javasci v2
• Intersci
  • intersci — Scilab tool to interface C or Fortran functions with scilab

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