hi.how to convert cell array to table?. i tried using cell2table() but it shows an error 'invalid function for the type cell'

if true
  LastName = {'Smith';'Johnson';'Williams';'Jones';'Brown'};
Age = [38;43;38;40;49];
Height =[71;69;64;67;64];
Age=cellstr(num2str(Age));
Height=cellstr(num2str(Height));
T = [{'','age','height'};[LastName,Age,Height]];
t=cell2table(T)

end

Answer 1

[Jan]

LastName = {'Smith';'Johnson';'Williams';'Jones';'Brown'};
Age      = [38;43;38;40;49];  % No need to convert this to strings
Height   = [71;69;64;67;64];
C        = cat(1, LastName.', num2cell(Age.'), num2cell(Height.'));
T        = cell2table(C, 'VariableNames', {'name', 'age', 'height'})

According to https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/cell2table.html this should work. If you get a message like "invalid function for the type cell" (by the way: please post a copy of the complete message), you might work with a Matlab version older than R2013b, which did not have the table objects. Otherwise please look in your documentation about a working example:

doc cell2table

Try to run the examples. What do you observe? What is the difference to your code?

[alankrita asthana]

Am using R2013a. basically am converting this cell array to table for exporting it to a ppt using ExportToPPTX() function.is there a way export this cell array to a ppt without converting it into a table.

[Jan]

Sorry, R2013a did not have the cell2table command. table objects have been introduced in R2013b. I do not know, which "ExportToPPTX" function you mean, but I do not assume, that it requires modern table objects.

If you mean https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/40277-exporttopptx, why do you think that you need a table object at all? The documentation contains an example, where a table is created directly from a cell array, see example.

[Kimberly Andersen]

C comes out as a 3x5 cell array and needs to be a 5x3 array to form the table T