Creating vectors with components

How do I create a 5-element column vector whose components are the squares of the elements of vector Row

[David Hill]

Look at transpose and basic matrix operations

[Walter Roberson]

What do you want to do if the vector Row is not exactly 5 elements long ?

Answer 1

[Bruno Luong]

r=[3 2 7 5 2]

r(1:min(5,end)).^2.'

or

r(1:min(5,end)).'.^2