What's New in MathWorks MATLAB R2016a

Desktop
- Live Editor: Create and run live scripts with embedded output; add equations and images to enhance the interactive narrative
- Toolboxes: Programmatically package and install custom MATLAB toolboxes with matlab.addons.toolbox package
- Tab Completion: Complete parameter names and options in select MATLAB function calls
- Pause Button: Pause the execution of a program from the Editor and enter debug mode
- Toolboxes: Customize additions to MATLAB path upon toolbox installation
- Preferences: Migrate preferences from MATLAB versions up to three releases preceding the release starting up
- verLessThan Function: Compares releases
- Internationalization: Default encoding scheme on Mac platforms will change in a future release
Language and Programming
- datetime Object: Set the default locale and format of datetime objects through the Preference panel
- zeros, ones, and eye Functions: Create logical arrays
- cellstr, deblank, and strtrim Functions: Keep significant whitespace characters when removing leading or trailing whitespace
- rowfun and varfun Functions: Create output table without row names when using the 'GroupingVariables' parameter
- Debugging: Set breakpoints while MATLAB is executing
- Functionality being removed or changed
Mathematics
- Moving Statistics Functions: Calculate moving statistics using the movmean, movsum, movmedian, movmax, movmin, movvar, and movstd functions
- datetime and duration Arrays: Compute standard deviations with std
- datetime and duration Arrays: Ignore NaNs and NaTs using 'omitnan' or 'omitnat' in the functions mean, median, std, and sum
- graph and digraph Classes: Analyze graphs and networks using centrality and nearest nodes functions
- svds Function: Compute singular values with improved performance and convergence behavior with a wide variety of matrices
- median Function: Compute medians with improved performance
- cummin, cummax, cumprod, and cumsum Functions: Compute cumulative minimum, maximum, product, and sum with improved performance
- GraphPlot Objects: Interactively inspect graph plots using data cursor and plot selection
Graphics
- polarplot Function: Plot data in polar coordinates and modify properties of polar axes
- yyaxis Function: Create charts with two y-axes and customize each y-axis individually
- Legend Object: Add legend title and create callbacks to highlight plots when clicking legend items
- histogram2 Function: Enable data linking and brushing for bivariate histograms
- Function Plots: Visualize mathematical expressions as parametric line, surface, and contour plots
- Graphics Display: Render plots with large numbers of markers faster
- 3-D Pan and Zoom: Explore data with improved pan and zoom behavior for axes in a 3-D view
- Graphics Drivers: Use latest drivers to avoid instabilities with older NVIDIA Windows drivers
- Printed Figure Size: Print or save figures that match size of the figure on the screen by default
- print Function: Print figures that fill page using the '-fillpage' and '-bestfit' options
- Figure Menu: Save figures that honor the PaperPosition value using File > Save As
- Functionality being removed or changed
App Building
- App Designer: Build MATLAB apps with line and scatter plots using an enhanced design environment and an expanded UI component set
Data Import and Export
- writetable Function: Write to text files significantly faster, especially for large files
- readtable Function: Read from Excel files with faster performance
- writetable Function: Write to Excel files on Mac and Linux platforms
- spreadsheetDatastore Function: Import and process data from a collection of Excel files
- datastore Function: Import a TabularTextDatastore object with improved file format detection
- ImageDatastore Object: Specify image labels using the Labels property and process with splitEachLabel, countEachLabel, and shuffle functions
- fileDatastore Function: Create a custom datastore for a file collection too large to fit in memory
- readtable Function: Read text files with automatic detection of delimiters, header lines, and variable names
- tabularTextDatastore and imageDatastore Functions: Create objects to import large text and image data collections
- writetable Function: Detect text with embedded delimiters automatically and write as quoted text
- TabularTextDatastore Objects: Read text files with automatic detection of delimiters, header lines, and variable names
- imread Function: Generate C-code using MATLAB Coder
- Functionality being removed or changed