Error using tabular/addvars (line 174) Variables must have the same number of rows as the table they are being added to.

Hi, I have two cells, which include tables. I want to create a new cell and merges one-by-one tables into it.

For example, the first table in A merges with the first table in B, second with second, and so on. I want to insert copied columns after existing columns in A tables.

So tables in A are nx12, and tables in B are nx5 I want merged tables in the new cell to be nx17. I tried this:

% A is 1 x 5 and B is 1 x 10
% I don't know how to optimize this code
Newcell = []
for i=1:size(A,1)
    for j=1:size(A,2)
        Newcell{i,j}=addvars(A{i,j},B{i,j}.model_name,B{i,j}.date,B{i,j}.lon,B{i,j}.lat,B{i,j}.precip,'Before',2,'NewVariableNames',{'model_name','date','lon','lat','precip'});
    end
end

But the error is:

Error using tabular/addvars (line 174)
Variables must have the same number of rows as the table they are
being added to. 

If my code is correct and this error accrued because of row numbers are different in A and B, Would you please tell me how I can eliminate excess rows in A? Because actually I want to eliminate after 336 rows in A too.

Thanks.

[fred ssemwogerere]

There are some issues i see with your workspace variables; "A" and "B".

1. The two are of different size (1x5 and 1x10). How will you concatenate tables in non-existent indices?

2. There are also a number of duplicates in both tables; "date","lon","lat". I think the aim should change to adding only specific variables in "B" to "A" as long as the two cell arrays are of equal size.

[BN]

Hello and thank you. Yes, I didn't think about that. Now I modified my A and B cells now are in 1 x 5. Also, I didn't know that it is impossible to assign the same name as the variable name for the table. So I want to use the capital words like DATE, LON, and LAT. I try to change them to the capital before merge tables using this code:

% Do you know how to merge this code? so with one for loop I be able to change all variable names?
for i = 1:numel(B)
    B{i}.Properties.VariableNames = strrep(B{1}.Properties.VariableNames,'date','DATE');
end
for i = 1:numel(B)
    B{i}.Properties.VariableNames = strrep(B{1}.Properties.VariableNames,'lon','LON');
end
for i = 1:numel(B)
    B{i}.Properties.VariableNames = strrep(B{1}.Properties.VariableNames,'lat','LAT');
end

And after that I use this again:

% A is 1 x 5 and B is 1 x 10
% I don't know how to optimize this code
Newcell = []
for i=1:size(A,1)
    for j=1:size(A,2)
        Newcell{i,j}=addvars(A{i,j},B{i,j}.model_name,B{i,j}.DATE,B{i,j}.LON,B{i,j}.LAT,B{i,j}.precip,'Before',2,'NewVariableNames',{'model_name','DATE','LON','LAT','precip'});
    end
end

But still i get this error:

Error using tabular/addvars (line 174)
Variables must have the same number of rows as the table they are
being added to. 

Here is new A and B.

I think the problem will fixed if I can delete after 336 rows in tables of A, But I don't know how to to that.

Answer 1

[JESUS DAVID ARIZA ROYETH]

for i = 1:numel(B)
    B{i}.Properties.VariableNames = upper(B{i}.Properties.VariableNames);%change all variable names
end
newcell=cellfun(@(x,y) horzcat(x,y),cellfun(@(x) x(1:336,:),A,'uni',false),B,'uni',false)%merging  A and B

[BN]

Thank You so much JESUS DAVID ARIZA ROYETH, It worked perfectly. Just one thing, I want to ask in this line:

newcell=cellfun(@(x,y) horzcat(x,y),cellfun(@(x) x(1:336,:),A,'uni',false),B,'uni',false)%merging  A and B

Is it possible to use height (B)? So in the future, if 336 changes to something like 340, the code automatically can recognize it. ( I mean what if 336 changed) (without hard-coding).

Thank you again.

[JESUS DAVID ARIZA ROYETH]

assuming same size in each table :

newcell=cellfun(@(x,y) horzcat(x,y),cellfun(@(x) x(1:size(B{1},1),:),A,'uni',false),B,'uni',false)

[BN]

I really appreciate.Kind Regards