Creating a one column table in matlab using a 1D array?

Question

I am trying to save a 1D array into a table in MATLAB. I would like the data to be saved in one column, with 5 rows of data, not 5 columns with one row of data (shown below).

testarray = [1:5];

testarray =

 1     2     3     4     5

t=table(testarray);

t=array2table(testarray)

t =

testarray1    testarray2    testarray3    testarray4    testarray5
__________    __________    __________    __________    __________

1             2             3             4             5

What I would like the output to look like:

t =

testarray
_________
1 
2 
3 
4 
5

If anyone has any idea of how I can make this work, please let me know!

sco1 · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-16 17:06:40Z

1

MATLAB's table objects are row-oriented, and MATLAB makes no assumptions about the shape of your data for the ambiguous vector case.

Because [1:5] is a row vector:

>> [1:5]

ans =

     1     2     3     4     5

MATLAB will treat this as one row of data.

Because you want column-oriented data, you will need to transpose this vector:

>> [1:5].'

ans =

     1
     2
     3
     4
     5

In order for MATLAB to treat it as a single variable (column):

>> testarray = [1:5];
t = table(testarray.')

t = 

    Var1
    ____

    1   
    2   
    3   
    4   
    5

answered Nov 16, 2016 at 17:06

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