How to display more than 3 elements per column using the Matlab "table" command?

When using the table command in Matlab, variables with a vector size bigger than 3 would not be displayed in the table with their actual values. Instead I get something like [1x4 double].

Please see this Matlab help example, I adapted to show my issue:

Case with vector length in variable "BloodPressure" = 3 (output displayed as "124 93 1" - the values I'm looking for)

 LastName = {'Smith';'Johnson';'Williams';'Jones';'Brown'};
Age = [38;43;38;40;49];
Height = [71;69;64;67;64];
Weight = [176;163;131;133;119];
BloodPressure = [124 93 2; 109 77 2; 125 83 2; 117 75 2; 122 80 2222222222];

 T = table(Age,Height,Weight,BloodPressure,...
'RowNames',LastName)

Command window:

 T = 

                Age    Height    Weight             BloodPressure         
                ___    ______    ______    _______________________________

    Smith       38     71        176       124            93             2
    Johnson     43     69        163       109            77             2
    Williams    38     64        131       125            83             2
    Jones       40     67        133       117            75             2
    Brown       49     64        119       122            80    2.2222e+09

Case with vector length in variable "BloodPressure" = 4 (output displayed as [1x4 double] - this is not of use for me)

 LastName = {'Smith';'Johnson';'Williams';'Jones';'Brown'};
Age = [38;43;38;40;49];
Height = [71;69;64;67;64];
Weight = [176;163;131;133;119];
BloodPressure = [124 93 1 2; 109 77 1 2; 125 83 1 2; 117 75 1 2; 122 80 1 2222222222];

 T = table(Age,Height,Weight,BloodPressure,...
    'RowNames',LastName)

Command window:

 T = 

                Age    Height    Weight    BloodPressure
                ___    ______    ______    _____________

    Smith       38     71        176       [1x4 double] 
    Johnson     43     69        163       [1x4 double] 
    Williams    38     64        131       [1x4 double] 
    Jones       40     67        133       [1x4 double] 
    Brown       49     64        119       [1x4 double]

Any hints and help much appreciated!

Answer 1

[Peter Perkins]

bayleaf, there's not currently any way to do that, other than splitting the four (or more) columns into separate variables in the table.

Can you say more about what you're doing, and why?

[bayleaf]

Hi Peter, using the table command I thought I found an easy and neat way to compare my outputs from some optimisation algorithms (the table would include variables such as initial parameters, iterations, performance, output values etc). So depending on the starting conditions and dimensions I'm looking at, the length of some of the vector variables varies.

I assume, splitting the four (or more) columns into separate variables would mean to modify the code depending on the number of dimensions I'm applying for the particular problem? Would there be an alternative way to solve the problem?