How to create a categorical variable with a specified number of characters?

Hi, I am trying to create a vector called 'labels' which has 1883 'N's followed by 332 'A's. The code I am currently using just gives a string of N's and A's like this:

NNNNNNNAAAAAAA

However, I wanted to create a variable called 'labels' which has 2215 (2883 + 332) rows and 1 column like this:

[N; N; N; N; .... A; A; A]

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance

% create a categorical variable with 1883 'N's' and 332 'A's'
labels(1:1883) = 'N';
labels(1884:2215) = 'A';

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

labels = [repmat('N',1883,1);repmat('A',332,1)];

or less robustly:

labels(   1:1883,1) = 'N';
labels(1884:2215,1) = 'A';
%               ^^ added

[Cai Chin]

Hi, thank you very much. This seems to have worked, however, each letter seems to have an apostrophe before it like this: 'A. How can I resolve this?

[Cai Chin]

Also, when I use the summary function, it gives this error: Check for missing argument or incorrect argument data type in call to function 'summary'. However, I would like it to say:

A 332

N 1883

[Stephen23]

"however, each letter seems to have an apostrophe before it like this: 'A. How can I resolve this?"

labels = [repmat('N',8,1);repmat('A',3,1)]

labels = 11x1 char array
    'N'
    'N'
    'N'
    'N'
    'N'
    'N'
    'N'
    'N'
    'A'
    'A'
    'A'

The single-quote is simply an artifact of how MATLAB displays character arrays (i.e. it tells us that the data have type char) it is not part of the data itself. If you do not want to display the data within single-quotes then you can write your own display routine based on FPRINTF or similar.

"Also, when I use the summary function, it gives this error: Check for missing argument or incorrect argument data type in call to function 'summary'."

The summary function is not specified to work on character arrays, it is defined to work on table classes, which is why you get that error. My guess is that you actually want something like this:

T = table(categorical(cellstr(labels)));
summary(T)

Variables:

    Var1: 11x1 categorical

        Values:

            A       3    
            N       8