The GSL Shell Project

GSL shell is an interactive command line interface that gives easy access to a collection of numeric algorithms and functions based on the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). GSL Shell is able to work with matrices or vectors to perform linear algebra operations.

Fast

GSL Shell is based on the outstanding Lua JIT compiler LuaJIT2. Thanks to LuaJIT2 the scripts defined with GSL Shell can run to at speed comparable to optimized C code.

Easy to use

Lua is a very interesting and easy to learn scripting language that features advanced functionalities like closures and metamethods. Lua is easy to learn and will give you the power of defining your own complex routines to use the GSL library more easily.

Fast numeric algorithms

GSL Shell has a special implementation of the algorithms for numerical integration, ODE integration and non-linear fit. These algorithms are able to run at the speed of native code even if the functions are defined using a simple dynamic language like Lua.

Plotting functions

You will be able also to create easily beautiful plots or animations using GSL Shell included graphical module.

GSL Shell is hosted at Savannah, here is the project page. GSL Shell comes with a complete user manual.

You can download the latest release of GSL Shell in the download section. You will find the source code and the binary packages for Windows and Linux.

2.3.0 release

GSL Shell 2.3.0 released.

The new chapter about GDT tables is now complete with a lot of examples.

A lot of work was done to improve the linear model function to treat correctly the corner cases and degenerate models. A functions to initialize GDT tables have been improved for greater simplicity. The function to create histograms was also improved over the first implementation. A new, useful, interpolation function for GDT table is also introduced.

A new blog about GSL Shell, Physics and Mathematics

A new blog about GSL Shell but not only.

I'm beginning to post some interesting things about GSL Shell or Math in general in a blog at the address http://gsl-shell.blogspot.fr. If you are interested in GSL Shell, maths or computer science you may find some interesting posts!

2.3.0-beta1 release

GSL Shell 2.3.0-beta1 released.

This new release introduce General Data Table (gdt) used to store observations data in tabular form. They are very similar to the well known GNU R's data frames.

General data tables open the ways to a whole family of functions that operates on table. By using a simple declarative language you can easily create plots based on the table's data or perform statistical analysis.

A function to make linear model fit of data is introduced like the "lm" function in GNU R.

In addition now it is possible to easily create plots with multi level labels on the axis. This is very useful to plot data based on multiple nested factors.

The new functions are documented in the General Data Table's chapter

of the user manual.

Donate

GSL shell is free software, everyone can freely use it, adapt or study the source code. You can contribute to its development by making a donation:

Why donate

GSL Shell User Manual

GSL Shell comes with a quite complete user manual. If you want to learn more about GSL Shell you can read with the introduction to GSL Shell. You may also give a look to the examples section to get a feeling of GSL Shell.

Contents:

• Downloads
  • Debian packages
  • Windows Binaries
  • Source Code
• Benchmarks
  • Results
  • Technical details
  • Benchmark availability
• Why donate
  • What feature you would like to add
• Older News
• Authors
• Acknowledgments