Is there a convenient way to display a matrix with row and column labels in the Matlab terminal? Something like this:
M = rand(5);
displaymatrix(M, {'FOO','BAR','BAZ','BUZZ','FUZZ'}, ...
{'ROW1','ROW2','ROW3','ROW4','ROW5'}); %??
yielding:
FOO BAR BAZ BUZZ FUZZ
ROW1 0.1622 0.4505 0.1067 0.4314 0.8530
ROW2 0.7943 0.0838 0.9619 0.9106 0.6221
ROW3 0.3112 0.2290 0.0046 0.1818 0.3510
ROW4 0.5285 0.9133 0.7749 0.2638 0.5132
ROW5 0.1656 0.1524 0.8173 0.1455 0.4018
Even better would be something with some ASCII-art niceties:
| FOO BAR BAZ BUZZ FUZZ
-----+-------------------------------------------------
ROW1 | 0.1622 0.4505 0.1067 0.4314 0.8530
ROW2 | 0.7943 0.0838 0.9619 0.9106 0.6221
ROW3 | 0.3112 0.2290 0.0046 0.1818 0.3510
ROW4 | 0.5285 0.9133 0.7749 0.2638 0.5132
ROW5 | 0.1656 0.1524 0.8173 0.1455 0.4018
Matlab has a function called printmat in the Control Systems toolbox. It's in the directory "ctrlobsolete", so we can assume that it is considered "obsolete", but it still works.
The help text is:
>> help printmat
printmat Print matrix with labels.
printmat(A,NAME,RLAB,CLAB) prints the matrix A with the row labels
RLAB and column labels CLAB. NAME is a string used to name the
matrix. RLAB and CLAB are string variables that contain the row
and column labels delimited by spaces. For example, the string
RLAB = 'alpha beta gamma';
defines 'alpha' as the label for the first row, 'beta' for the
second row and 'gamma' for the third row. RLAB and CLAB must
contain the same number of space delimited labels as there are
rows and columns respectively.
printmat(A,NAME) prints the matrix A with numerical row and column
labels. printmat(A) prints the matrix A without a name.
See also: printsys.
Example:
>> M = rand(5);
>> printmat(M, 'My Matrix', 'ROW1 ROW2 ROW3 ROW4 ROW5', 'FOO BAR BAZ BUZZ FUZZ' )
My Matrix =
FOO BAR BAZ BUZZ FUZZ
ROW1 0.81472 0.09754 0.15761 0.14189 0.65574
ROW2 0.90579 0.27850 0.97059 0.42176 0.03571
ROW3 0.12699 0.54688 0.95717 0.91574 0.84913
ROW4 0.91338 0.95751 0.48538 0.79221 0.93399
ROW5 0.63236 0.96489 0.80028 0.95949 0.67874