Re: Octave's and Matlab's limitations

[Francesco Potortì]

>>  Can S (or R) do something like the following?
>>
>> A([1:2:97 98 99], 1:end-1) = 0;
>>
>Of course. An example:
>
>A=matrix(rnorm(100*100),100,100)
>A[c(seq(1,97,2),98,99),c(1:(nrow(A)-1))]<-0

Well, this is done using functions, it is not a feature of the language
itself.  It definitely makes sense to speak of the Matlab indexing
notation, which is a more powerful evolution of the S notation and, in
my opinion, is the killing feature of Matlab/Octave (and apparently of Julia).

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