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Error: Error using dlfeval Value to differentiate must be a traced dlarray scalar.
Notice the example code has f = 100*(x(2) - x(1).^2).^2 + (1 - x(1)).^2; grad = dlgradient(f,x); so it is receiving an x (tha...
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how to plot time-based x-axis?
numtime = 17; %or whatever timevals = linspace(0, maximum_time, numtime); arr_throughput_A = zeros(max_num_stream,numtim...
5 hours ago | 0
how to read and plot a .trc file?
The trc file you sent me is in Lecroy Binary Format. Fortunately someone has created code to read those. https://www.mathworks....
6 hours ago | 0
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Calling script from a function is recommended?
% bar.m fid = fopen('baz.m', 'w'); fprintf(fid,'beta = 1:1e6;\n'); fclose(fid) whos baz(); whos clearvars foo() whos ...
6 hours ago | 0
[Feature request] "Run from Start to Here" button in Live Scripts
In the Live Editor, mouse over to the white border between the line numbers and the gray space for the code. A "Run to Here" but...
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Filter or delete data from (time)table depending of missing values
[Copying answer down from comments] Snan = @(v)sum(v) + 0/(numel(v)==6); datasum = rmmissing(retime(data, 'hourly', Snan)); (...
7 hours ago | 0
scatter3, stop the color changing after a second scatter3 command
When you use scatter3() and pass in a vector of color information, the information you pass in is not color indices into the cur...
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using fzero to solve nonlinear equation
The function handle you pass to fzero() or to fsolve() must accept only one parameter. Your s0, vmax, and k are all known cons...
13 hours ago | 0
filtering data from table
Close. TQTable = timetable(Time, Temperatuur, GlobalStraling);
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minor grid in consecutive plots
grid minor toggles the visibility of the minor grid lines. Minor grid lines lie between the tick marks. Not all types of charts ...
14 hours ago | 0
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loading a sequence of datasets using parfor
You need to synchronize with the GPU, and spend time transfering data to it, and wait for it to be ready, and read the data back...
15 hours ago | 0
Unable to perform assignment because the left and right sides have a different number of elements.
S = zeros(1,T/dt); S(1) = N; S is a vector. dS = ((-beta*(B/(B+k))*S(tt) + ub*(S(tt)+I(tt)+R(tt)) - ud*S) * dt)'; ...
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How to find and store each spot center position in the loop.
Use bw = bwareafilt(imbinarize(croppedImage), [10 inf]); Some of your images end up with very small extra regions, jus...
15 hours ago | 0
Plot time series data colored by color coded by ID
t = readtable('YourFile.csv'); [G, ID] = findgroups(t{:,1}); hold on h = splitapply(@plot, t{:,2}, t{:,3}, G); xlim auto; yl...
16 hours ago | 0
Switching between functions that have the same name
You do not need to restoredefaultpath but you do need to remove the previous folder You do, however, need to clear the class. ...
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How to stretch cos fit
axes([0 0.75 0.75 1.03]); %must do this before plot h(1) = scatter(xData, yData, 'b+', 'DisplayName', 'data'); hold on h(2)...
17 hours ago | 0
subplot for 'controlchart' function
Use the 'parent' option ax(1) = subplot(2,1,1); plot(ax(1), rand(1,20)); ax(2) = subplot(2,1,2); load parts st = contro...
17 hours ago | 1
Why symvar() sort 10 smaller than 9
symvar() sorts inconsistently if I recall correctly. It gets complicated when you start mixing numbers and underscores. For the...
17 hours ago | 0
How to use else if with ODE45 solver?
The mathematics used in the RK methods such as ode45(), require that for any one call the function be continuous and its first t...
17 hours ago | 0
How to avoid rounding error
A = [sym(10)^(-20) 1 ; 1 2] [L,U] = lu(A) L*U - A You can see from this that in order to get back A exactly, then you need a ...
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How to achieve identical timing of two side by side annotations
For anything like this you should probably be using the third party Psychtoolbox http://psychtoolbox.org/
18 hours ago | 0
How to use movefile correct?
files = dir('/Users/haron/Desktop/Work/Haron/aprikose_edfs/*.edf.html'); for ii=1:length(files) oldname = fullfile(files(...
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performing multiple elementwise operations at the same time
You would need the Parallel Computing Toolbox... and a flexible definition of "at the same time". It is unlikely to be worth th...
1 day ago | 0
what's the problem with my code ? Warning: Rank deficient, rank = 1, tol = 2.574115e-12.
for i = 1:n_pts+1 a = [X1 Y1]; Your X1 and Y1 do not change with the iterations, so your a will be the same for all iterations...
1 day ago | 0
How to use #inlcude <>? # is declared as an invalid character!
MATLAB will not tell you that if your file extension is .c
1 day ago | 2
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correlation between binary strings
R = sum((x - E).*(y - E)) ./ (sqrt(sum((x-E).^2)) .* sqrt(sum((y-E).^2)));
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Warning: Integer operands are required for colon operator when used as index.
If length(V2) is even, then length(V2)-1 is odd, and length(V2)-1)/2 would not be an integer when you do the 0:1: operation. Lik...
1 day ago | 0
Need help to mask the image.
img = imread('https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/578172/untitled.jpg'); grimg = rgb2gray(img); bla...
1 day ago | 0
Use the input arguments to load user-defined .mat files(2xn matrix) in the function.
A= load (varargin{1}); %to load first inputargument file name This assumes that when you called [Ans1,Ans2,Ans3,Ans4]= Data_fu...
1 day ago | 0
Calling Matlab from command line gives Caught unexpected exception of unknown type, why?
clear all; clear all asks MATLAB to destroy as much state as possible, leaving little more than what is stored in the current g...
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