How to add .bash_profile in Windows to run Matlab-based IPython notebooks

Question

I'm looking at this tutorial to run matlab code in IPython notebook: http://anneurai.net/2015/11/12/matlab-based-ipython-notebooks/.

but I am stuck at step3: I edited the .bash_profile file located at "C:\Users\myUserName.bash_profile" by adding the following line

export MATLAB_EXECUTABLE="/c/Program\ Files/MATLAB/R2014a/bin/matlab.exe"

How can I check if the line I added is correct? Now I do not know how to proceed:which is the terminal? Can I start jupyter directly via the icon?

Answer 1

It seems that it is not possible to use Matlab kernel in IPython notebook in Windows. See this post: https://github.com/arokem/python-matlab-bridge/issues/226

You need to first make sure that pymatbridge works fine but as it mentioned in the above link, it is different from one computer to the other.

Answer 2

I went to Start > Control Panel > and typed "Environment" in the search bar. Then I clicked "Edit environment variables for your account". I clicked "New..." and added a variable named MATLAB_EXECUTABLE with the value C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\bin\matlab.exe (replace this with the path to your matlab.exe).

Now I can select Matlab from the available kernels (after restart with jupyter notebook).

Answer 3

It seems you're using a Windows environment, which doesn't have an equivalent to the Terminal built-in. If you successfully installed Anaconda, however, you should be able to open the ipython notebook from there.