Problem Diagnosing Adding Vectors to Cell Array

I'm having trouble with adding zero row vectors to a cell array and can't figure out why: (Only the last two for loops are relevant for the problem)

function C = SplitS(n)
%Split a symetric group n, into each of it's m-cycles.
Q=0;
R=zeros(1,n);
%Create a row vector storing each of the cumulative sum of the number of m (column) cycles
for i = 1:n
    r=factorial(n)/(i*factorial(n-i));
    Q=Q+r;
    R(i)=Q-n+1; %1st term is always n and should be 1 
end
Q=Q-n+1;
C=cell(1,Q);
C{1}='id';
for j=1:length(Q)-1
for k = R(j)+1:R(j+1)
    C{k}=zeros(1,j+1);
end
end
end

I'm pretty sure that there's not a problem with indexing, but with adding the zero vectors to the empty cell array. For example, if I input n=3:

>> SplitS(3)

ans =

    1×6 cell array

    Columns 1 through 5

      {'id'}    {0×0 double}    {0×0 double}    {0×0 double}    {0×0 double}

    Column 6

      {0×0 double}

>> ans{2}

ans =

       []

However, what I want to return in this case is a cell array with 1*2 vectors of zeros in columns 2 to 4 and 1*3 zero vectors in rows 5 and 6. Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

[Greg]

Can't track for sure, but it looks like Q is a scalar. I think you want to replace:

for j = 1:length(Q)-1 % length(Q) = 1, so 1:1-1 is a little silly...

with

 for j = 1:Q-1

[William_M]

Thanks, it wasn't quite that, I should've put length®-1, can't believe I missed that haha!

[Greg]

We've all been there.