Display matrix with row and column labels

Question

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 

Answer 1

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