Re: EEGLAB with Octave

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Nicholas Jankowski <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Ghina Zia <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I need some help related to running EEGLAB with Octave on Windows OS. Can you provide some guidance or tutorial links for that ? 

As EEGLAB was designed as a MATLAB toolbox, and the included functions/source do not seem to be simply available on their website, it's difficult for us to guess as to how well it may work under Octave, or even how to set it up to attempt to use it. Unless someone who's used it before frequents this mailing list, I suspect you'll may get more insightful help from the EEGLAB developers.

nickj

Just to add a bit more: 

It's possible it could work.  You'll want to install Octave. Possibly some of the add-on packages, depending on what EEGLAB assumes is available. (image processing package I'd think, maybe others.)  Next, you'd 'install' or unzip or download ... or whatever's appropriate... EEGLAB into a folder on your harddrive. Then, start octave, change to the folder with the EEGLAB functions, and start trying to run some of the EEGLAB functions. Maybe they have a tutorial you can step through.

I can see from the website that the Toolbox is very GUI intensive. It may be that a lot of the functions will run, but from the command line, not the graphical interface. You'll have to work through it by trial and error.

Now, if you could convince the EEGLAB folks to port their toolbox to an Octave Package, I'm sure Octave-Forge would love to host it. :)

nickj