vertcat for a number and string

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Neesha
Neesha on 18 Sep 2014
Edited: Adam on 18 Sep 2014
Hi All,
I have to metrices...
1)
SpecialName GenericName
1 457
2 555
3 758
Adding the image of my dataset copied over to excel. The column virtual and Product is giving me hard time for now.
2)
SpecialName GenericName
x NA
y NA
z NA
Now you can see both has the same column name but data type is different. The first one is Number and the 2nd one is string (when i see it shows each wrapped in ' ' hence saying it as string)
Now i want to do vertcat of those two. i trie applyign num2str on 1st one but still vertcat does not work. WHat should i do?
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Adam
Adam on 18 Sep 2014
In that case I'm not too sure, I never even realised dataset existed as a type, although I see it is listed for possible removal in a future release.
If you have R2014a you should probably use the dataset2table function to convert to a table then you can use table operations for concatenation.
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 18 Sep 2014
I like that answer, Adam. Put it below as an official answer. Tables are available for R2013b and later.

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Adam
Adam on 18 Sep 2014
[ num2cell(a); b ]
should work if a and b are your two matrices and the first is a standard numeric array and the second is a cell array.
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Neesha
Neesha on 18 Sep 2014
num2cell is not working , i mean it executes but vertcat fails, do you need any more info from me?

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Adam
Adam on 18 Sep 2014
Edited: Adam on 18 Sep 2014
If you have R2013b or later you should probably use the dataset2table function to convert to a table then you can use table operations for concatenation.

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