Changelog for MATLAB/R Reference, by David Hiebeler
- Sept 25, 2007: added new section 3.5, describing how to fit polynomials to observed values.
- Oct 15, 2007: corrected typo in squaring a matrix (currently item #64); thanks to Alan Cobo-Lewis for pointing it out.
- Oct 26, 2007: fixed error in current item #67, MATLAB eig(A).
- Nov 9, 2007: corrected descriptions of some pdfs (probability density functions), and some small improvements to the index.
- Nov 28, 2007: added cdfs (cumluative distribution functions), and also workarounds for how to compute various pdfs and cdfs in MATLAB without using the Statistics Toolbox.
- Dec 28, 2007: corrected capitalization of MATLAB as per The MathWorks editorial guidelines, and fixed an error in the indices.
- Dec 29, 2007: changed references to R to use sans-serif font as seems to be the convention, and further slight additions to the R index.
- Jan 6, 2008: additional info about printing to PostScript/PDF in R; and a new item about displaying cellular automata / lattice images during simulations (currently item #192), since in R it takes some effort to avoid bad flickering/flashing.
- Jan 7, 2008: added table of contents; added reference to drawnow to cellular automata display; minor changes to some index entries.
- Jan 17, 2008: corrected typo in building a list of values and counts in a vector of discrete values (currently item #101); thanks to Isaac Michaud for catching it.
- Jan 18, 2008: small addition to index; info about rotating 3-D plots made with surf in MATLAB or persp in R.
- Feb 11, 2008: added R's "ifelse" vectorized statement (thanks to Stephen Eglen for suggesting it); added item for querying/setting MATLAB'S search path; moved all info about installing and loading R packages into a new item which is now cross-referenced by other items requiring package manipulation.
- Sep 1, 2008: added info about Matlab ismember and R match, along with Matlab strcat and corresponding use of R paste (thanks to David Khabie-Zeitoune). Simplified way to list unique values or bin data using Matlab hist, added use of Matlab get to obtain list of open figures, Matlab importdata as an alternative to load, Matlab fprintf to display strings without the trailing newline, and Matlab struct and R data.frame (thanks to Lee Pang). Added info about skipping comments when reading data from files, including Greek letters and symbols in plot axis labels, setting font sizes in figure labels, and sample values from a vector with and without replacement (I'm to blame for those).