Categorical Plotting: Use categorical data in common plotting functions and customize axes with categorical rulers.legend Function: Create legends that update when data is added to or removed from the axes.heatmap Function: Visualize table or matrix data as a heatmap.

table Data Containers: Use row labels when performing join, sort, and grouping operations.

head and tail Functions: Return top or bottom rows of table or timetable.

issorted Function: Query sort order with monotonic, strictly monotonic, strictly ascending, and strictly descending options.

sort and sortrows Functions: Specify options for sorting complex numbers and placing missing elements.

issortedrows Function: Determine if matrix and table rows are sorted.

missing Function: Assign missing values in core data types, including double, datetime, categorical, and string arrays.

String Functions: Return character arrays or cell arrays instead of string arrays.

string Arrays: Create string arrays using double quotes.

Startup Folder Behavior Changes: Set initial working folder using new options and behaviors.

MATLAB Online: Use MATLAB through your web browser for teaching, learning, and convenient, lightweight access.

Add-On Explorer: Discover and install File Exchange submissions hosted on GitHub in Add-On Explorer.

Live Editor: Hover over variables to see their current value.

Live Editor: Copy live script outputs to other applications.

Live Editor: Get suggestions for mistyped commands and variables.

Live Editor: Edit a figure interactively including title, labels, legend, and other annotations.

R2017a also includes updates and bug fixes to 86 other products. R2017a includes a new product, Automated Driving System Toolbox, which helps design, simulate, and test ADAS and autonomous driving systems. The release also adds new important deep learning capabilities that simplify how engineers, researchers, and other domain experts design, train, and deploy models.Matlab 2017a ( MATLAB 9.2, R2017a) introduced on with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink.

Matlab 2017b ( MATLAB 9.3, R2017b) introduced on with new features in MATLAB and Simulink, six new products, and updates and bug fixes to 86 other products.

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