Best File Exchange ever !!!

Dear all Matlab users,

When I am bored I am going to file exchange section and sort it by rating and learn new staff about Matlab.

We are all familiar with:

" This file was a File Exchange Pick of the Week "

I am wondering which file exchange is:

Best File Exchange Eever ?

1) Each answer should be follwed with a short description.

2) I suggest that each answer will contain only one file, in that way people can vote for individual answer.

In my opinion this is the best file exchange ever:

Tips and tricks for use of the optimization toolbox, linear and nonlinear regression http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8553-optimization-tips-and-tricks

posted by John D'Errico

Answer 1

[Jan]

Matt Fig's 41 GUI examples are a valuable tutorial for beginners and advanced Matlab users. I personally would like to see it integrated in the official documentation:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24861-41-complete-gui-examples

[Sean de Wolski]

Very valuable!

[Jan]

Dear Matt: It is very funny to earn reputation points with *your* submission. I do not dare to mention COMBINATOR in addition. If you post it here by yourself, I will vote it immediately.

[Matt Fig]

Thanks a lot Jan, that is quite a compliment. As always, I am looking to improve and/or add to this collection - so if you or anyone sees anything that can be bettered please let me know by email.

[zohar]

OK Jan I forgat this one.

you got +1 form me !

Answer 2

[Jan]

Oliver Woodford's EXPORT_FIG simplifies the export of figures to graphic files and has been suggested very often in CSSM and here.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23629-exportfig

[Matt Fig]

+1 to that. This is the file I turn to when I want to export a nice graphic for publication.

[Image Analyst]

I'd vote for Oliver's export_fig (not to be confused with the similarly named exportfig by another author). It's the one that I recommend most to others. I also use export_fig myself a lot, along with D'Errico's polyfitn (too bad he took that down).

Answer 3

[Jan]

Yair Altman's CPRINTF: Displays sprintf-formatted strings in the Command Window using the specified color/underline style.

This is an absolutely new feature to enhance the usability of the command line.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24093-cprintf-display-formatted-colored-text-in-the-command-window

[zohar]

Cool! (+1)

Answer 4

[Sean de Wolski]

John D'Errico's inpaint_nans:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/4551-inpaintnans

Its 3/n-d extensions as well.

Answer 5

[Sean de Wolski]

keep

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/181-keep

Probably the only FEX file that I use on a daily basis.

[John D'Errico]

Keep has had several variations on the FEX, but it is a good one to keep around.

[zohar]

posted by David Yang

Good one (+1)

Answer 6

[Andrew Newell]

I have only had the Matlab xUnit Test Framework by Steve Eddins for a few weeks, but I already consider it indispensable. It makes it so easy to write a good set of tests.

Answer 7

[Matt Fig]

John D'Errico's Variable Precision Integer Arithmetic toolbox is awesome, and I would have had no idea how to do it if it was assigned to me!

[Sean de Wolski]

vpi2english makes this a front runner for not just useful but also coolest.

Answer 8

[John D'Errico]

One tool from the FEX that I do use frequently is TIMEIT, by Steve Eddins. It gives me an accurate estimate of the time required for a code fragment when I find myself forced to optimize some code for speed. It is far more useful than tic and toc and more accurate. While the profiler itself is valuable too, code optimization forces you to focus on a specific small operation, which may have been identified as a bottleneck by the profiler.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/18798-timeit-benchmarking-function

[Brett Shoelson]

Another nod for TIMEIT...very useful!

Answer 9

[Jan]

Coolest submission without any use:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8442-theme-from-super-mario-brothers-song

Or:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7856-car

Sorry for posting 2 submissions - I simply cannot decide which one is better, and if a "best" submission must be "useful" for anything.

[Sarah Wait Zaranek]

Wow. I didn't know that was out there!

[Jiro Doke]

Love the Super Mario song!

[zohar]

Very nice !

Answer 10

[Matt Fig]

I hope it doesn't sound arrogant, but the only file from the FEX POTW which I literally use several times every single day is my whats file. Since I use it so often, I have to mention it here.

[Jan]

+1. Thanks for publishing.

Answer 11

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Colour-coded lines!

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/3747-cline-m

...or if it was:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/14677-cline

...or...

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23566-3d-colored-line-plot

Answer 12

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

And an small beauty for keeping track of how figures were created:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/1244-stampit

Answer 13

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Easy figure-2-data digitization:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7173-grabit

Answer 14

[Jan]

This is the most advanced GUI I've ever seen built by pure MATLAB:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8313-uigetdate

Of course I mean the foreground figure...

Answer 15

[Bruno Luong]

I give my vote for

https://fr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/25977-mtimesx-fast-matrix-multiply-with-multi-dimensional-support