tableAgent: A chain-method table class in Matlab

@tableAgent: A class for applying chain method on table in Matlab, and providing with many useful methods functions

tableAgent: A chain-method table class in Matlab

methods of tableAgent:

areParensNext droprow numArgumentsFromSubscript stackCell
blockCopy gen numel stackCell2
blockExchange gen_dummy pivot subsasgn
cmdstrStandardize gen_forEachCol plotcols subsref
col gen_slice plotcolsNumber subsrefDot
colbyLabel genbygroup queryTabAinTabB summary
colstr2coldouble groupby renamecol tableAgent
colstrLabel2coldouble height row unstack
copykeyproperties istableAgent rowstr2rowdouble varargout_demo
disp keepcol runCmdGen width
dispBasicProperties keeprow size
dispclass merge sortrows
dropcol mergeTables stack

1.1 objective
1.2 Install
1.3 usage
1.4 requirement
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1.1 objective
@tableAgent: create a class for applying chain method on table in Matlab

1.2 Install
All files you need are included in tableAgent_test.zip.

unzip the tableAgent_test.zip. and add the folder to matlab path.
run tableAgent_test.m for examples.

1.3 usage
See tableAgent_test.m for List of all features.

data construction
%% data construction method 1
T = tableAgent;
T.name = ["Joan","Merry","Tom","Kate"]';
T.sex = ["male","female","male","female"]';
T.grade = [99,67,66,35]';
T.G = [99,67,88,55]'+ 4;

%% data construction method 2
T = table;
T.name = ["Joan","Merry","Tom",
TB = tableAgent(T);
generate new col or variable, by passing variable x
%% Test of passing variable x
para.x = [1,1]';
TB = T.row([1,2]).gen('Gx=grade + para.x',para);
generate new col or variable, by passing inline-function para
%% Test of passing inline-function para
fnew = @(x)(x+3);
TB = T.row().gen('G=fnew(pi)',fnew,'fnew');
TB = T.row().gen('G2=fnew(pi)',fnew,'fnew');
generate new col by group operation
%% chain method demo
TB = T.row('G>=60').groupby('sex').genbygroup('SexPlus = G+1')...
.genbygroup('SexPlus = sex+"plus"');
test of dropcols and droprows
TB = T.row([1,2]).droprow('G==71');
TB = T.keeprow([1,3,4]);
TB = T.dropcol(2).row(3).droprow().keepcol('name,G');

TB = T.droprow('G==71');
TB = T.row(1).droprow()
index of table Agent
%% Test of assign
T{1,2:3} = [33,55];
T{1,1} = "Joan,Hi";
chain-method operation
%% chain method demo
TB =T.row('grade==67|grade<38').gen('grade = grade+1').gen('G = grade*2')...
.row('grade<=99').gen('G = log(grade)*10')...
.row([1,3]).gen('G=3')...
.row().gen('G=pi');
disp
%% test of disp
T = T.row([1,2]);
T.gen('G=2').dispclass;
dispclass(T);
disp(T);
disp(T.table);

1.4 requirement
Matlab 2018b