How can I display a MATLAB table in a figure?

I have a MATLAB table where each of the variables contains a single column of data.  How can I display the table in a figure?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

You can either use "uitable" or a more complicated series of commands depending on how you want the table to look.

For example, let us assume you have a table defined by the following code:

LastName = {'Smith';'Johnson';'Williams';'Jones';'Brown'};
Age = [38;43;38;40;49];
Height = [71;69;64;67;64];
Weight = [176;163;131;133;119];
T = table(Age,Height,Weight,'RowNames',LastName);

1.) If you want the table to have adjustable-width columns and a more stylized look, execute the following "uitable" command to display the table "T" in a figure:

uitable('Data',T{:,:},'ColumnName',T.Properties.VariableNames,...
    'RowName',T.Properties.RowNames,'Units', 'Normalized', 'Position',[0, 0, 1, 1]);

You can refer to the following documentation link for more information on "uitable":

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uitable.html

2.) If you want the table to look very similar to how it looks when outputted in the MATLAB command window, execute the following series of commands to display the table "T" in a figure:

% 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]);

You may find the following documentation links useful:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/evalc.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/strrep.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/annotation.html

[Elham Bideh]

how can i convert a figure in matlab to a table?

actualy i need to convert performence figure per iteration to a table... i want to calculate some another things with perfotmence in each iteration... but i don't now what should i do?!

i tryed for change some things in mse function... but i couldn't :(

[Julia Cooper]

Hello,

If you have further questions regarding your specific use case, please feel free to contact MathWorks Technical Support at

https://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us.html

who may be able to assist further.

[andrea]

I used the second method to create a figure with a table but, when i try to save it as a .eps and i import it on latex there is a border which i would like to eliminate, how can i do it ?

[Dan Hendrickson]

Andrea,

Please contact MathWorks technical support if you are still having an issue removing the border. They may be able to assist further.

https://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us.html

Best,

Dan

[Daniel Leibundgut]

How can I adjust the displ,ay format of the data? Set the number of digits per column individually?

Answer 2

[Amir Pasha Zamani]

The second method did´nt work for me bacause my table is very big and the look of it is not appropriate when it is shown in Mtalab workspace

The first method I need to run, but I get this error:

error:
Cannot concatenate the table variables 'Day_indx' and 'DATE', because their types are double and cell

I can not change the types of my variables, I needthem the way they are!

Any suggestion ?

[Thiviya Navaneethan]

Please contact MathWorks Technical Support if you are looking for help with this issue. They may be able to assist you.

https://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us.html

[Guenter Troll]

My table contains latex symbols. Consequently, using the second solution (first does not work at all) the rows of the table are shifted with respect to each other. I tried to add tabs but that does not work. They are ignored.

Answer 3

[Chris McGraw]

If you were happy with Answer#2 above but don't want to construct the table in a dedicated figure/uifigure/uipanel, the same Tex-formatted string can be used with the text() function to output the table to an axis (e.g. as defined by subplot function).

Ax_stats= subplot(211);
set(Ax_stats,'YTickLabel',{},'XTickLabel',{},'XTick',[],'YTick',[]);
Ax_stats.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
Ax_stats.YAxis.Visible = 'off';
text(0.5,0.5,TString,'Units','normalized','HorizontalAlignment','center','FontName','Courier New','FontSize',8);

The data are not 'bound' by the confines of the axis, but it does put them there if you have a small handful of results to display.

I haven't had much luck getting fixed width font to work on Linux, but happy with the half-way result.