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