Create a table from symbolic vectors

I would like to create a table from symbolic data. I have a vector where each component is a polynomial. I would like to have a table whose entries are these polynomials. When I use table command this happens

    >> syms x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6
  >> G=[x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6]

G =

[ x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6]

>> table(G)

ans = 

          G    
      _________

      [1x6 sym]

>>

Answer 1

[Brendan Hamm]

The table(var1, var2,...) function will create a table where the variables are the inputs var1, var2, ...

What you want is to have a table where each element (or column) is a variable, so use array2table:

T = array2table(G)

[Farid Salazar Wong]

It is not working for me. Now I obtain

      syms x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6
      G=[x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6]
  G =

[ x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6]

>> T=array2table(G)

T = 

           G1           G2           G3           G4           G5           G6    
        _________    _________    _________    _________    _________    _________
        [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]

[Brendan Hamm]

It is being stored that way, just not displayed that way:

>> T.G1
ans =
x1

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

G=sym('x',[1,6])
H=num2cell(G)
table(H{:})

[Farid Salazar Wong]

Does not work yet,

syms x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6
G=[x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6];
H=num2cell(G);
table(H{:})

ans = 

        Var1         Var2         Var3         Var4         Var5         Var6   
      _________    _________    _________    _________    _________    _________

      [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]    [1x1 sym]

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What are you expecting as result?

[Farid Salazar Wong]

I would expect to have a table like this:

Var1         Var2         Var3         Var4         Var5         Var6   
_________    _________    _________    _________    _________    _________
   x1            x2         x3           x4           x5            x6

[Walter Roberson]

This is a limitation on the display of tables. If you need to see the content of the columns you will need to do the formatting yourself. The table is properly formed, it just isn't displaying as you hope.

Answer 3

[Peter Perkins]

Farid, tables are meant to store "column-oriented heterogeneous data". That's not what you have, or at least not in your example. You have one symbolic variable, a 1x6 row vector. There's not much point in creating a 1x6 table, it just doesn't get you anywhere that your G variable doesn't already.

What are you really trying to achieve?

Answer 4

[Seyed Morteza Raziee]

x = sym('x', [6, 2]);

y = string(x);

table(y(:,1), y(:,2), 'VariableNames', {'first_column', 'second_column'})

[Seyed Morteza Raziee]

table(char(y(:,1)), char(y(:,2)), 'VariableNames', {'first_column', 'second_column'})