appending element to vector

Hello Im a diff function to estimate a derivative(du/dx), however I lose an element as excepted, now I want to add the average value of the derivative to the end of vector (du/dx) such that is the same length as u. Thanks

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

That doesn't sound very sensible as you're mixing two different entities into a single variable, but if that's what you want to do:

x = sin(linspace(0, pi, 100)); %for example

d = diff(x);
dwithmean = [d mean(d)]

[shobhit mehrotra]

i have this script

for n = 1:length(dataind)

winddivergencex(n)= (diff(Ui(min(dataind{n}): (max(dataind{n})))))./(diff(longm(min(dataind{n}):(max(dataind{n})))));

winddivergencex has to contain the same number of elements as n so i want append a term to the end of the winddivergencex vector so they have the same amount of elements. Thanks

[Guillaume]

Why do they have to have the same number of elements?

Answer 2

[Michael Haderlein]

As Guillaume has mentioned, that's not the usual way to go. Assume you want to plot the data (which requires equally sized arrays), these are the common options:

x=linspace(0,100);
y=x.^2;
dydx=diff(y)./diff(x);
figure, hold all

%best way: shift the x by half dx
x2=x(1:end-1)+diff(x)/2;
plot(x2,dydx)

%lazy way: just use n-1 x values
plot(x(1:end-1),dydx)

%semi-lazy way: add nan (will not be plotted)
dydx=[diff(y)./diff(x) nan];
plot(x,dydx)

When you run these lines, you see a shift between the blue line (which is technically correct) and the red/green lines (overlaying).