You can put them into an elisp src block to try it out. They have to go in
an init file to be permanent. I just made a symlink to the matlab
executable on my path.

The ipython functions are defined in ob-ipython,
https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython I think.

John

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On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

> >>> "John" == John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>    > The kernel provides a "session" so matlab stays alive and doesn't
> have to
>    > restart on every block.
>
>    > The kernel might require python3.
>
> Although I think I installed the kernel, I am not sure about the code
> you sent me, namely
>
> (defalias 'org-babel-execute:matlab 'org-babel-execute:ipython)
> (defalias 'org-babel-prep-session:matlab 'org-babel-prep-session:ipython)
> (defalias 'org-babel-matlab-initiate-session 'org-babel-ipython-initiate-
> session)
>
> These ipython functions where are they supposed to be defined?
>
> BTW where do you  tell the kernel about the matlab executables?
>
> Uwe
>
>
>