Change data type of a row in a table?

Ex. Change this table

 1 2 3 4 
 2 1 3 2

to

 '1' '2' '3' '4'
  2   1   3   2

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No, that is no possible. In a table() object, all elements of a column must be the same data type.

In order for some entries in a column to be character vectors and some entries to be numeric, you would have to change the column to cell array, ending up with

['1'] ['2'] ['3'] ['4']
[  2] [  1] [  3] [  2]

[Daniel Broadie]

What about in a cell array?

[Walter Roberson]

Each cell array entry can be a different data type.

A = [ 1 2 3 4 
      2 1 3 2 ]
B = num2cell(A);
B(1,:) = sprintfc('%d', A(1,:));
disp(B)

    '1'    '2'    '3'    '4'
    [2]    [1]    [3]    [2]