getting a specific column from a table

Hi Guys So I have a table (T) that I created from a cvs file. It has column headers and I want to assign x = content so x column 1 and y = contents of col 2 (for example)

How do I do that?

It seems so silly to ask but I don't know the syntax.

x & y will be used in my linear regression model.

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

x = T{1};
y = T{2};

[Lorraine Williams]

Thank you, Walter :)

[Peter Perkins]

If it's a table as in, you used readtable to read in a CSV file, that syntax won't work. Assuming your variable names in the table are X and Y, the simplest thing is just

x = T.X;
y = T.Y;

Alternatively,

x = T{:,'X'}; % or T{:,1}
y = T{:,'Y'}; % or T{:,2}

will work. There really is documentation for this, see for example, Accessing Data in a Table.

[Walter Roberson]

Darn, I keep forgetting the : needed for extracting rows. ;(