11.12 Organization of Functions Distributed with Octave
Many of Octave's standard functions are distributed as function files. 
They are loosely organized by topic, in subdirectories of
octave-home/lib/octave/version/m, to make it easier
to find them.
   
The following is a list of all the function file subdirectories, and the
types of functions you will find there.
     
- audio
- Functions for playing and recording sounds.
     
 
- deprecated
- Out-of-date functions which will eventually be removed from Octave.
     
 
- elfun
- Elementary functions, principally trigonometric.
     
 
- @ftp
- Class functions for the FTP object.
     
 
- general
- Miscellaneous matrix manipulations, like flipud,rot90,
andtriu, as well as other basic functions, likeismatrix,nargchk, etc.
 
- geometry
- Functions related to Delaunay triangulation.
     
 
- help
- Functions for Octave's built-in help system.
     
 
- image
- Image processing tools.  These functions require the X Window System.
     
 
- io
- Input-output functions.
     
 
- linear-algebra
- Functions for linear algebra.
     
 
- miscellaneous
- Functions that don't really belong anywhere else.
     
 
- optimization
- Functions related to minimization, optimization, and root finding.
     
 
- path
- Functions to manage the directory path Octave uses to find functions.
     
 
- pkg
- Package manager for installing external packages of functions in Octave.
     
 
- plot
- Functions for displaying and printing two- and three-dimensional graphs.
     
 
- polynomial
- Functions for manipulating polynomials.
     
 
- prefs
- Functions implementing user-defined preferences.
     
 
- set
- Functions for creating and manipulating sets of unique values.
     
 
- signal
- Functions for signal processing applications.
     
 
- sparse
- Functions for handling sparse matrices.
     
 
- specfun
- Special functions such as besselorfactor.
 
- special-matrix
- Functions that create special matrix forms such as Hilbert or Vandermonde
matrices.
     
 
- startup
- Octave's system-wide startup file.
     
 
- statistics
- Statistical functions.
     
 
- strings
- Miscellaneous string-handling functions.
     
 
- testfun
- Functions for performing unit tests on other functions.
     
 
- time
- Functions related to time and date processing.