Error using vertcat, dimensions of arrays being concatenated are not consistent

Results = [beamontime; beamofftime; dwelltime; avgxbeam; avgybeam; avgbeam; avgxcentroid; avgycentroid; jitter; avgpower; avgpeakirr; framerate; dwellframerate];
Name = [ 'Beam On (UTC)'; 'Beam Off (UTC)'; 'Dwell Time (s)'; 'Average X-Diameter (cm)'; 'Average Y-Diameter (cm)'; 'Average Diameter (cm)'; 'Average X-Centroid (cm)'; 'Average Y-Centroid (cm)'; 'Jitter (cm)'; 'Average Power (kW)'; 'Average Peak Irradiance (W/cm^2)'; 'Frame Rate (Hz)'; 'Dwell Time Frame Rate (Hz)'];
T = table(Name, Results)

I have two arrays with 1 column and 13 rows. I am trying to make a 2 column table with the names on the left and results on the right. The first 3 results are durations and the rest are double values. Please help, I feel like making tables is so hard on Matlab!

[Stephen23]

"The first 3 results are durations and the rest are double values."

You will have to store these in a container array, e.g. a cell array, because table columns/variables must be one homogenous data type. Mixing data types like this is probably not the best use of a table.

"Please help, I feel like making tables is so hard on Matlab!"

The error message you get is due to concatenating together incompatible char vectors. It is unrelated to tables.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Use a string array rather that trying to vertically concatenate incompatible character vectors:

Name = ["Beam On (UTC)"; "Beam Off (UTC)";..];
%       ^             ^  ^              ^ string scalars, not character vectors.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/characters-and-strings.html

[Stephen23]

Tested:

Name = ["Beam On (UTC)"; "Beam Off (UTC)"; "Dwell Time (s)"];
Results = [1;4;pi];
T = table(Name,Results)

T = 3×2 table
          Name          Results
    ________________    _______

    "Beam On (UTC)"          1 
    "Beam Off (UTC)"         4 
    "Dwell Time (s)"    3.1416 

[Lucas]

Much appreciated!