Binary package “octave-io” in ubuntu xenial

input/output data functions for Octave

 This package provides functions to input/output data in different
 formats in Octave, a numerical computation software. It contains
 functions to add variables to existing save files (append_save), read
 and write matrixes to a text file (dlmwrite, csvread, csvwrite) and
 read Excel spreadsheet (xlsread) and OpenDocument spreadsheet (odsread).
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 This Octave add-on package is part of the Octave-Forge project.