MATLAB: I keep getting the error “subscript must either be real positive integers or logicals” even when I place an ‘if’ statement

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It seems I keep getting the error "subscript must either be real positive integers or logicals".
This must be because I have started of from i = 1, hence i – 1 = 0 and thats where the problem is. I thought that my ' if ' loop would have solved that issue, but it does not seem to be working.
Thank you,
My script is below:
U=1
S = 1.7*1.2*ones(1, 10);
Tout = 5
ma = 1
ca = 2
DTM = 1
deltat = 1
index = 1:30;
%Prealloacate
SQAmb = zeros(numel(index), numel(S));
QAmb_Total = zeros(size(index));
deltaTin = zeros(size(index));
Tin = zeros(size(index));
%for loop
for i = index
if (i)==1
Tin(i) = 20
else
Tin(i) = Tin(i-1)+deltaTin(i)
end
SQAmb(i,:) = S*U*(Tout-Tin(i));
%Total Ambient Load in Array Form
QAmb_Total(i) = sum(SQAmb(i,:))
%change in air cabin temperature where deltat is timestep
deltaTin(i) = (QAmb_Total(i)/((ma*ca)+DTM))*(deltat)
%New car cabin temperature
Tin(i) = Tin(i-1)+deltaTin(i)
end

Best Answer

‘I thought that my ' if ' loop would have solved that issue, but it does not seem to be working.’
It is working in the if block, but not afterwards.
The line that throws the error is: 
%New car cabin temperature         
Tin(i) = Tin(i-1)+deltaTin(i)
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