The function you are refering to is from the Symbolic Math toolbox. You need the Symbolic Math Toolbox along with MATLAB to run it:
For your question, you could simply work with numbers. eg: Following is an (almost) heaviside function plot:
x = [1 2 3 4 4.001 5 6 7 8 9 10];
y = [0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1];
plot(x,y);
axis([1 10 -1 2]);