Can I add units to the table?
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Can I add units to the variables in the table? I have searched for information and I could not find anything, it can only be done in numbers ...please help
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Matthew Anderson
on 9 Apr 2020
Agree, super annoying that when you put units into a table - they aren't displayed.
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Raj
on 17 May 2019
"Can I add units to the variables in the table?" Yes you can. You can specify units for each variable in the table by modifying the table property,
% |VariableUnits|.
Specify the variable units as a cell array of character vectors.
Something like this:
table (W,T,Pe,P)
T.Properties.VariableUnits = {'Rad/S','NM','N','N'}; % what I could make out from your picture. Please correct if wrong.
Or Do you want the units to get displayed on your table? Please be clear.
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Andreas Lobinger
on 15 Dec 2020
I see - and thanks for the long explaination. Can you provide a "why" here? I'd assume a lot of researchers want to put units in tables - and adding to the variable name eats up screen space, so a second line looks like the natural solution.
Walter Roberson
on 15 Dec 2020
table() are not designed for presentation purposes. Report Generator has facilities for better output of tables.
That said, it would seem to me to be a small thing to add the units or the Variable Description information (which might be the original names of the variables.) It could even be made into properties as to whether to display them or not. I don't know why Mathworks has not done this.
table() could also benefit from a per-variable format specification... among other things.
KSSV
on 17 May 2019
It is not allowed...may be you can use something like this:
varNames = {'Name', 'Age_in_Years'} ;
varTypes = {'string','double'};
s = {'Tom' ; 'Dick' ; 'Hary'} ;
a = [20 ;21; 24] ;
T = table(s,a) ;
T.Properties.VariableNames = varNames
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