This is a very good point actually, I have done the same a few times. Of course this works well until you get to code heavily dependent on toolbox functions.
Which leads to another advantage of Matlab (at least as long as you don't have to pay for it) -- the documentation (including toolbox documentation) is way ahead of any competition.
Whoever came up with the R package documentation standard has done that language a great disservice :( IMO, the fact that every R package includes a huge pdf with alphabetical listing of functions and data sets is actively harmful: without it, perhaps more package authors would at least feel compelled to write a 2-page readme.txt (just like various matlab package writers do), and that would have been actually useful.
Which leads to another advantage of Matlab (at least as long as you don't have to pay for it) -- the documentation (including toolbox documentation) is way ahead of any competition.
Whoever came up with the R package documentation standard has done that language a great disservice :( IMO, the fact that every R package includes a huge pdf with alphabetical listing of functions and data sets is actively harmful: without it, perhaps more package authors would at least feel compelled to write a 2-page readme.txt (just like various matlab package writers do), and that would have been actually useful.