how do I plot a table to a figure?

I'm playing with tables because I liked how it's displayed and I'd like to display the table in a figure. Is there a simple way to do this (built in function?) or will I need to create a function that will do this somehow?

Example

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; 109 77; 125 83; 117 75; 122 80];

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

T = 

                Age    Height    Weight     BloodPressure 
                ___    ______    ______    _______________

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

I'd like T displayed in a figure that looks like it's displayed in the command window. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Tlines = strsplit( evalc(T), '\n');

monofont = get(0,'FixedWidthFontName');
h = uicontrol('Style', 'edit', 'String', Tlines, 'Enable', 'disable', 'Font', monofont, 'Position', ......);

[Jason]

Hi Walter, Thanks for the code, but evalc(T) doesn't work with a table. Am I supposed to convert the table to some other format first?

[Jason]

I figured out what I think Walter was doing.

If I replace the first line with

Tlines = strsplit('disp(evalc(T))', '\n');

the rest works.

Here's what I ended up doing:

% Set up an example table.

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; 109 77; 125 83; 117 75; 122 80];

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

% Get the table in string form.

TString = evalc('disp(T)');

% Use TeX Markup for bold formatting and underscores.

TString = strrep(TString,'<strong>','\bf');

TString = strrep(TString,'</strong>','\rm');

TString = strrep(TString,'_','\_');

% Get a fixed-width font.

FixedWidth = get(0,'FixedWidthFontName');

% Output the table using the annotation command.

annotation(gcf,'Textbox','String',TString,'Interpreter','Tex','FontName',FixedWidth,'Units','Normalized','Position',[0 0 1 1]);