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

- 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