Point Kernel for Jupyter Notebook at Matlab

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I am trying to get Jupyter Notebook to work with Matlab. I found a very helpful blog post about this which got me as far as being able to create a MATLAB notebook. The blog post proposes the following steps:

  1. Download and install Anaconda.
  2. Install the Python packages pymatbridge and matlab_kernel.

  3. Define the path to the MATLAB executable by typing the following in a terminal:

    echo "export MATLAB_EXECUTABLE=/Applications/MATLAB_2015b.app/bin/matlab" >> ~/.bash_profile.

  4. Restart terminal. Then using MATLAB from a Jupyter Notebook should work.

My issue is with the third step, which is to point the kernel to the MATLAB executable. It is written for someone using a Mac, and I am on Windows 10. I'm not familiar enough with what is being done here to "translate" this step for Windows. Here are the instructions for a Mac:

I would deeply appreciate any suggestions on how to accomplish this step in Windows 10.

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Executing the command

 echo "export MATLAB_EXECUTABLE=/Applications/MATLAB_2015b.app/bin/matlab" >> ~/.bash_profile

in the terminal appends the text 

export MATLAB_EXECUTABLE=/Applications/MATLAB_2015b.app/bin/matlab

to the file ~/.bash_profile. This file is loaded every time you open a terminal on OS X. The export command is used to create an environment variable. So with this command, the environment variable MATLAB_EXECUTABLE is created and has the value /Applications/MATLAB_2015b.app/bin/matlab.

This environment variable is needed by the matlab_kernel module, as described in its documentation.

To set an environment variable on Windows (7+), you can use the setx command, as described in this question on SuperUser. Thus, instead of the echo ... line, you should call

setx MATLAB_EXECUTABLE "C:\Program Files (x86)\MATLAB\R2015b\bin\matlab.exe"

Note that you'll need admin rights for that.