To add context as requested by kcrisman, I am using Octave in Cloud.Sagemath.com running scripts in .m files.
How does one plot in Octave? Supposedly the command should be the same as in Matlab, e.g.
x = 1:10; figure, plot(x,x.^2)
However, nothing showed up in the terminal. Please help.
You can print to a file from Octave in the terminal using the print command and then open the jpg file in SMC using the open command via Octave's system command. Here is my .m file:
x=0:0.1:10;
figure();
plot(sin(x));
print('~/sine.jpg');
system('open sine.jpg');
This will pop open the graph in a new tab within SMC.
If you are working from within a worksheet in SMC, you can get the graph to display within the worksheet by using:
%octave
x = 0:0.1:10;
h = figure('visible', 'off');
plot(sin(x));
saveas(h,"~/fig.png");
%sage salvus.file("fig.png")
I tried your example on cloud.sagemath.com, by opening a new terminal, typing "octave", and copy-pasting the line you gave. This produced an ascii-art plot of "y = x^2" in the required range.
~/2014-07-07$ octave
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octave:1> x = 1:10; figure, plot(x,x.^2)
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Asked: 2014-07-07 04:50:03 +0100
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We need more context here. Octave is not part of Sage, though we do have an optional interface to it. If you are using it directly inside of Sage, the answer will probably at least to some extent depend on how you are using Sage (command line, notebook, cloud).
@kcrisman: I have edited my question adding the context. Thank you.
Thanks. The answers given are good, but I wonder if they directly address running the files as scripts - maybe calc314's does?
Good point! The code I provided will run in a .m file as a script. To get the plot to open automatically, we can use a `system` call to the `open` command. I'll modify my answer.