title: What can MATLAB do that R cannot do?
body: <p>I often hear people complain how expensive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MATLAB</a> licenses are. Then I wonder why they don't just use <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Octave</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">R</a>. But is the latter right? Can you use R to replace MATLAB?</p>