Steven Lord
MathWorks
I joined The MathWorks in the Technical Support department during the summer of 2001 and transferred into the Quality Engineering department in March of 2004. I now work qualifying the core MATLAB numerical functions (PLUS, MINUS, LU, FFT, ODE45, etc.)
Professional Interests: mathematics, MATLAB
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Standalone application cannot read p-code?
Standalone apps cannot run any MATLAB code that was not included in the application at compile-time. From the documentation "MAT...
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Tiny discussion on good practices in object oriented programming (OOP) through a simple example
First, having two classes whose names differ only by casing or by the difference between singular and plural seems likely to cau...
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Files generated during testing are not saved
I second Geoff Hayes's question about where you're creating these files. Are you putting them in a directory created using a Tem...
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Retrieve curve fit coefficients
What "something else" are you planning to do with this fit information? There are a number of post-processing operations you can...
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Does Matlab support coding of embedded systems and robotics
Take a look at the Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Embedded Systems sections linked from the Solutions section of the websit...
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How to save multiple output?
In your code: %{ for i = 1:m [A,x,y]=myfunction(I,vals(i,1), vals(i,2)); end %} is A always going to be the same size? If ...
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How to add black isolines for f(x,y) = -1, 0, 1
Use the contour or contour3 functions.
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Dealing with Data Structures
Can you create variables named impact_data0, impact_data1, impact_data2, etc.? Yes. Should you do this? The general consensus i...
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Warning: Function class has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict
You've created or downloaded a file named class.m that's preventing MATLAB from calling the built-in class function. Identify th...
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Extracting value from Name-Value pairs using the Name string
test = struct('units', {'degrees_east', 'degrees_north'}, ... 'long_name', {'longitude', 'latitude'}) theNames = {test.lon...
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How do I get an Expression to Use the Value of a Variable that was Assigned after the Expression was Defined?
Use subs. syms z f = 2*z z = 4; f g = subs(f)
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What is the equivalent of mmult of excel in matlab?
The * operator performs matrix multiplication, but in order for that operation to be mathematically defined you need to transpos...
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Cut a graph ?
If the data to be plotted includes NaN, that point will not be plotted. x = 1:5; y = [1 2 NaN 1 2]; plot(x, y) axis([0 6 0 3...
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Histogram occurences per age problem
Use the histogram function instead of histc.
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How to assign strings and numbers to elements of the same matrix?
Do you need your data stored with mixed-type columns or would mixed-type rows work? If the latter, consider a table array. Resu...
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Passing additional argument into objconstr
Adapting the example from the documentation page for packfcn: ros = @(x, k) k*(x(2) - x(1)^2)^2 + (1 - x(1))^2; % Added a param...
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Use of Genetic Algorithm feature for optimization of technical design
What signature does the documentation page for the ga function state your nonlinear constraint function must have? [How many inp...
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Transpose pivot reshape a MATLAB table from a cross-section wide 'row format' to a panel-data long 'column' format
I'm not sure where those 4444 values came from in your second T variable, but I think what you want is to stack your table data....
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How to determine polynomial coeffisient of N x M matrix instead Of 1 x N or N x 1?
Do you want M polynomials, one per row, or do you want one polynomial for all your data? If the latter, just columnize your data...
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Is there a better way to use cellfun with arguments? and is it better than for-loop?
A = {1:10, magic(5), @sin} cellfun(@(x) size(x, 1), A)
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[beginner] How do you plot two vectors of diffrent length?
I believe your suspicion about whether the commas should be periods is correct. MATLAB uses the convention that the decimal sepa...
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How do I create array of a function with for loop?
I have a in total 42 of 424x412 doubles Can you do this? Yes. Should you do this? The general consensus is no. Rather than ha...
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Setting a plot's x-axis by units and not finer data points?
When you call plot with one data input, the indices of the elements in the vector are used as the X coordinates. plot((1:10).^2...
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Use of geoglobe in MATLAB R2017a
As stated on the documentation page for the geoglobe function, it was introduced in release R2020a. It did not exist in release ...
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I am trying to solve 3 simultaneous ODE's. Which method to use?
This documentation page includes two examples, the second of which you can use as a model for your code to solve a system of dif...
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creating variables with a for loop
Can you define variables with numbered names like X1, X2, X3, ... or whose names are given by a list of strings? Yes. Should y...
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Which toolboxes are recommended for civil engineering?
This question is really quite general and so it's difficult to give a definitive answer. If you open the Solutions page linked a...
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Efficient ODE with function handles
Does f_function expect to be called with two input arguments or three? x = [1; 2; 3]; y = [4; 5; 6]; value1 = min([x, y], 4) ...
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Converting hh:mm:ss into seconds
t='14:35:59.812'; F = 'hh:mm:ss.SSS'; du = duration(t, 'InputFormat', F, 'Format', F) format longg % To make s look nicer s ...
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How to average first two dimension of 3D array/matrix?
The ability to specify a vector of dimensions over which to sum an array was introduced in release R2018b as stated in the Relea...
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