How to create table in Octave with border? - octave

Question

I want to create a table which looks like this Table01.
Where each column is a vector.
I tried with Octave data frame package but it is not generating table as I expected (With border)
Previously I tried with [t,I_X,I_Y] = table(x,y) which is also not satisfactory.
How can I generate table like the sample I provided and store them in format pdf in a directory?

Answer 1

I imagine you want something similar to uitable in MATLAB. Unfortunately, I don't think that has been implemented yet. However, I think I've found a solution that might help you. Here's the output I get for an example matrix m=magic(4):
If that is what you want, then keep reading! So, first, install the miscellaneous package. If using Ubuntu, you can just do that with
apt-get install octave-miscellaneous
Now, all you have to do is (well,you might run into a small problem, but I'll adress that in a bit):
pkg load miscellaneous
m=magic(4);
textable(m,"file","/tmp/file.tex","clines","rlines");
And voilà, you have the matrix expressed in latex code in "/tmp/file.tex", that you can compile with pdflatex , or alternatively, just copy paste it into something like this to get an image of the table.
Potential problem you might run into. Note that this seems to apply in octave version 4.2.2 which is the one I'm using, so, maybe you wont encounter that problem with your version. When using textable, you might get an error of the style
error: value on right hand side of assignment is undefined
error: called from
textable at line 111 column 5
If that happens, this is because the function textable (whose code you can find in textable.m, you can just use $ locate textable on Ubuntu) seems to use an obsolete (or different) interface to the inputParser object that it uses internally. So, if that happens, just go to line 111 of textable.m and replace
p = inputParser;
p = p.addSwitch ("clines");
p = p.addSwitch ("rlines");
p = p.addParamValue ("math", "X", #ischar);
p = p.addParamValue ("file", "matrix.tex", #ischar);
p = p.addParamValue ("align", "r", #(x) any(strcmpi(x, {"l", "c", "r"})));
p = p.parse (varargin{:});
with
p = inputParser;
p.addSwitch ("clines");
p.addSwitch ("rlines");
p.addParamValue ("math", "X", #ischar);
p.addParamValue ("file", "matrix.tex", #ischar);
p.addParamValue ("align", "r", #(x) any(strcmpi(x, {"l", "c", "r"})));
p.parse (varargin{:});
and you're set to go.