Conventional / "best practices" location for personal functions
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Is there a conventional / standard / "best practices" location for parking self-developed functions, such that they are globally available from the command prompt (i.e. independent of current working directory)? I initially thought about $MATLABROOT/toolbox/local, but that contains exclusively TMW-provided scripts and text files. Moreover, as explained by John D'Errico in this old thread, there are potential issues with path caching at startup for anything placed inside $MATLABROOT.
(To be clear, I'm interested in where, rather than how. Either path or pathtool can be used to do the latter.)
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Stephen23
on 22 May 2020
Edited: Stephen23
on 22 May 2020
@AMM: you should not add/remove/edit files within any application's installation directories. This is not just because of function caching issues (i.e. something specific to MATLAB), but because it is inherently a bad idea to alter anything in the installation directory of any application, even in locations that you think are benign, e.g. MATLAB's toolboxes.
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/222839-how-to-use-functions-from-private-directories
There be dragons!
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Image Analyst
on 22 May 2020
I do just like dpb says. The Mathworks told me to have a work folder, and all my various 200+ projects have subfolders under work. In addition, I have one folder there called Utilities that has a bunch of useful functions that I use all the time in other programs. I set a path to it in my startup.m file.
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