An array / matrix of tables

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Alon Osovsky
Alon Osovsky on 17 Nov 2020
Answered: Sai Veeramachaneni on 20 Nov 2020
Hi! I want to load an unknown amount of tables, and store them in an array, list, or even a matrix.
I tried implomenting it using a simple array, and even a cell array (in which each cell represnets a table), but I always find myself getting errors like "Can't convert from table to cell".
Is there is a way to store multiple tables is some sort of a list?
Thanks in advance!
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Adam Danz
Adam Danz on 17 Nov 2020
Show us what you tried so we can work out the kinks. A table can be stored in a cell array easily using
c{i} = T; % where T is a table
Peter Perkins
Peter Perkins on 19 Nov 2020
You can't make an "array of tables" per se, because a table is already an array. But you can put multiple tables in a cell array, as Adam shows. Another option (if they are similar enough) is to vertcat them and add a variable that says which "chunk" of data each row is from. Things like groupsummary and varfun can work with a format like that, using the new variable as a "grouping variable".

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Sai Veeramachaneni
Sai Veeramachaneni on 20 Nov 2020
Hi.
I think you are using smooth parenthesis for assigning table to cell index i.e. c(1)=Table which results in "Can't convert from table to cell".
Try changing parenthesis to curly braces i.e. c{1}=Table
For loading unknown amount of tables you can iterate over each table and assign them inside cell dynamically.

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