Translate R to MATLAB and MATLAB to R with ChatGPT

Version 1.01 (1.27 MB) by Duncan Carlsmith
Illustrates translation of a simple R script to MATLAB, and back to R, using OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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MATLAB supports interoperability with R but you might want to translate R to MATLAB or the reverse. This script illustrates an experiment in such translation using the interface to ChatGPT 3.5 at OpenAI.com. Similar things can be done programmatically using the OpenAI API but I find the present API interfaces with a less capable model.[1]
For other code creation and translation experiments, see my scripts at MATLAB File Exchange.

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Duncan Carlsmith (2026). Translate R to MATLAB and MATLAB to R with ChatGPT (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/127424-translate-r-to-matlab-and-matlab-to-r-with-chatgpt), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2023a
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1.01

Added interactive_examples tag
1.0.1

Fix typos
1.0.0