Why might Mathworks remove the class dataset? And for which version is this planned?

I want to start a statistical process controll system for our plants. Dataset looks quite usefull to me, but I want to build something for the future. What is your suggestion?

Kind regards, Roland

[Matt J]

doc dataset recommends that you use the table class instead. Why don't you like that as an alternative? I'm assuming that's where you read about plans to remove the dataset class.

[Roland Mitter]

I am sure I can live with the table. I am just wondering... There must have been a reason to implement the dataset class. So, why now removing it? I was once importing data where I realised a difference between dataset and table, but I forgot what it was. Thanks for your comment!

[Matt J]

I don't use dataset or table very often, but my impression is that table contains the same functionality and more. If you recall the difference that you see, people might have ideas about how to recover that functionality.

[Walter Roberson]

table provides more functionality than dataset and is part of basic MATLAB, so dataset is not needed any longer. Keeping old features is expensive to maintain, because every bug found in one has to be fixed in the other. It is common to find mistakes, deficiencies or limitations in older code that are difficult to get rid of without rewriting the older code to essentially be the same as the newer code.