Implementation of numerical method

In summary, the conversation discusses a numerical method to solve an initial value problem and the use of Newton's method to calculate an approximation of the solution. The program code provided implements this method and there is a discussion about the initial value and how to compute the solution for different values of n. The output of the program for different inputs is also mentioned.
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Consider the initial value problem

$$\left\{\begin{matrix}
y'(t)=f(t,y(t)) &, a \leq t \leq b \\
y(a)=y_0&
\end{matrix}\right. (1)$$

I want to write a program that implements the following numerical method to solve $(1)$

$\left\{\begin{matrix}
y^{n+1}=y^n+h[\rho f(t^n,y^n)+(1-\rho)f(t^{n+1},y^{n+1})] &, n=0,1, \dots, N-1 \\
y^0=y_0 &
\end{matrix}\right.$for a uniform partition of $[a,b]$ with step $h=\frac{b-a}{N}$.
For each $\rho \in [0,1)$ the method is implicit, that means that at each step we will have to solve a nonlinear equation for the computation of $y^{n+1}$. This can be done with the use of Newton's method, which is defined as follows:

Let $g(x)$ be a function and $x^{\star}$ a root of it, which we want to approach. Given an initial approximation of the root, $x_0$, we define the iterative procedure $x_{k+1}=x_k-\frac{g(x_k)}{g'(x_k)}, k=0,1,2, \dots$ that approaches our root. There are two termination criteria of the method. Either we define a maximum number of iterations $R_{max}$ or we require two consecutive approximations to differ less than an accuracy [m] tol [/m] that we define, i.e. we terminate the procedure when we have $|x_{k+1}-x_k|<tol$.For example, if we have $\rho=0$ then we have the implicit Euler method $y^{n+1}=y^n+hf(t^{n+1},y^{n+1})$.

In our case, $g(y^{n+1})=y^{n+1}-y^n-hf(t^{n+1},y^{n+1})$.

So in order to calculate an approximation of $y^{n+1}$, we will use Newton's method:

$$y_{k+1}^{n+1}=y_k^{n+1}- \frac{g(y_k^{n+1})}{g'(y_k^{n+1})}=y_k^{n+1}- \frac{y_k^{n+1}-y^n-hf(t^{n+1},y_k^{n+1})}{1-h \frac{\partial{f(t^{n+1},y_k^{n+1})}}{\partial{y_k^{n+1}}}}, k=1,2, \dots, R_{max}$$

given some initial approximation $y_0^{n+1}$ (let $y_0^{n+1}=y^n$).That's what I have tried so far:
Code:
function [t,y]=pf(a,b,y0,N, rho)
RMAX=4;
tol=10^(-3);
h=(b-a)/N;
t=zeros(1,N+1);
y=zeros=(1,N+1);
y0=zeros(1,N+1);
t(1)=0;
y(1)=1;

for n=1:N
    g=@(y(n+1)) y(n+1)-y(n)-h*(rho*f(t(n),y(n))-(1-rho)*func(t(n+1),y(n+1)));
    dg=@(y(n+1)) 1-h*(1-rho)*dfunc(t(n+1));
    y0=y(n);
    for k=1:RMAX
        y(n+1)=y(0)-g(y(0))/dg(y(0))
     
       
    end
end
Is is right so far? I don't know what to do with the initial value $y_0^{n+1}=y^n$ and in general with $y_k^{n+1}$.
We want to compute $y_1^{n+1},y_2^{n+1}, y_2^{n+1}, \dots$ for several values of $n$.
So does it suffice to consider a vector of length $N$?
Or should we have a two-dimensional array? (Worried)
 
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I have written a function and calling it with $a=0, b=1, N=5, y0=1, \rho=0$ and I got the following results:
[m]
t =

0 0.2000 0 0 0 0y =

1 1 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 0 0

[/m]

Then, changing the function, I got the following:[m]
t =

0
0.2000
0.4000
0.6000
0.8000
1.0000y =

1.0000
0.3529
15.1119
647.0365
228.3700
-133.2945

[/m]Could you tell me one of them is the right result? (Thinking)
 

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