Walter Roberson

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Help with FOR to PARFOR conversion
Every iteration you overwrite all of D. Your result is whatever was assigned in the last iteration. But the order of iterations ...

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Error using sym/subsindex
symbolic variables can never be used as indices. You cannot symsum or symprod and use the control variable as an index. Inste...

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Make a point move up and down
x = 0:.01:20; %linspace of x y = sin(x); %wave equation px = 0; %initial x plot py = 0; %initial y plot img =imread('AvgBsc...

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How to generate random numbers with constraints and different boundaries (for a high dimension)?
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9700-random-vectors-with-fixed-sum Roger has programmed exactly that.

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if statement not displaying
if (n) >= (3) You are entering 3 ingredients, so n >= 3 is true, so the body of the "if" will be executed. elseif (a(k)) == (1...

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Why is memory reduced for an identical copy of a sparse array?
The operation AAAAAAA(1:end,1:end) is not the same as AAAAAAA by itself. >> V=[1 -2 3 -4 5] V = 1 -2 3 -4 ...

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Data Acquisition Toolbox with Simulink: Counter Input Channel
turn off rapid acceleration. You can have normal acceleration but you will probably need to mark a number of functions as exte...

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Can I programmatically do file I/O on AWS EFS or EB3?
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html R2020a copyfile() supports aws s3: URI.

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Error with Measure Distances in an Image
images.roi.Line needs at least R2018b I believe.

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How to solve exponential equation ?
The empty answer is correct. When you solve(), you are asking for the set of values for variables that makes all of the equatio...

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Readtable reads my timestamp data as NaN
filename = 'heart.csv'; S = fileread(filename); datacell = textscan(regexprep(S, ':(\d\d\d)', '.$1'), '%f%T%f%f%f%T%f%T', 'hea...

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using interp1 'nearest' and 1 value is missing
nearest= interp1(refDateTime, 1:length(refDateTime),expDateTime, 'nearest', 'extrap') The interpolation mode you were using, li...

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cannot save quadrature data
file_name ='data.txt'; fid = fopen(file_name, 'w'); fprintf(fid, '%.17e%+.17ei\r\n', [real(data.'); imag(data.')]); fclose(fi...

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Help with solve under the symbolic environment
%Calibration p0 = 0.05; p1 = 0.1; lambda = 0.1; ybar = 1; kappa = 0.9; b0 = 0.5; c1 = 0.4; alpha = (ybar*lambda*(1-p0)/p...

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Searching for specific pattern and returning 16 values/data characters from the last index of occurrence of my specific pattern
input1 = [0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ]; substring=[0 1 0 1]...

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About copying txt to matrix
filename = 'whatever.txt'; fid = fopen(filename, 'rt'); data = cell2mat( textscan(fid, '%f%f%*s') ); fclose(fid);

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"str2sym" delete the element wise operation
This is correct behaviour for symbolic expressions. The symbolic toolbox assumes that any unresolved symbolic variable name w...

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animatedline fails after the first iteration
Create the subplot and modify their position before the loop. Make sure to pass the axes to the hold() and grid() calls. At p...

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How to associate a rectangle with a struct?
rgb = imread(filename) ; mask = rgb(:, 1) < 32 & rgb(:, 2) > 224 & rgb(:, 3) > 224; mask = bwareafilt(mask, [50 inf]); ...

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Conversion to double from struct is not possible.
Filenames = dir('*mat'); numfiles1 = length(Filenames); EEGSinDC = cell(numfiles1, 1); for i = 1 : numfiles1 filedata = l...

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Yaxis becomes periodic after using ylim
I predict that you have either used yyaxis or xxaxis, or else that you have use the older plotyy(), or else that you called axes...

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extract numbers or string after specific symbol from a text file
dinfo = dir('*.txt'); nfiles = length(dinfo); filenames = fullfile({dinfo.folder}, {dinfo.name}); IDs = cell(nfiles,1); FC...

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Imwrite creates 8bit tif file despite 16bit input
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/imwrite.html If A is a grayscale or RGB color image of data type double or single, t...

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About the install and configuration GPU for matlab 2020a
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx Use that to download the appropriate driver for your system. You can download the ...

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Expression representation in an Iteration
W_k = cell(N,1); w=[randn(2,1)+ij*randn(2,1)]; W_k{1} = w*ctranspose(w); for n=1:N; w = randn(2,1)+ij*randn(2,1); W...

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piecewise for use in anonymous functions
Rmaxtb00 = matlabFunction(Rmaxtb0, 'File', 'Rmaxtb00.m', 'optimize', false); The generated function in the .m file will use if/...

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Transfer Function with one 1/s term
You cannot do that with Control System Toolbox tf() function. tf() keeps numeric vectors of coefficients with implied powers; it...

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If expression to check whether a particular function has been called
In the general case, there is no way to detect whether a particular function has been called. If you turn on profiling before y...

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I'm new to matlab and am trying to sort an array in ascending order without using the sort command. How would I rectify this?
You have for i=1:length(a) so i can be equal to length(a) . Then you do if a(i)>a(i+1) When i has become length(a) t...

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How to edit colors for the line?
We do not know exactly what PlotCone does, but we can predict from the observed behavior that it is creating more than one line(...

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