trying to create a new vector from 2 vectors.

Hello,

I have a routine below that reads in an excel file. The vector y is created. It then computes r from a function and from that y1 is computed.

I then want to create a new vector y2. This vector will contain the first 3 elements of vector y and the last 3 elements of vector y. The elements in between will come from y1.

I am getting an error

??? Error using ==> horzcat
CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent..

but the vectors y and y1 are the same size and direction.

When I type y(1:3), y1(4:end-3), y(end-2:end) separately into the command line I get the elements that I am expecting and when you sum their lengths together it equals the length of y and y1.

Would anybody know what is going wrong?

Thank you

sch_cycle=xlsread('C:\Autonomie practice\RW.xls','Input_data');
nrows = size(sch_cycle,1)-1;
x = sch_cycle(:,1);
y = sch_cycle(:,2);
h=3;
N= size(sch_cycle,1);
r=ksr(x,y,h,N)
y1=r.f';
y2 = [y(1:3) y1(4:end-3) y(end-2:end)];

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

y = y(:);
y1 = y1(:);
y2 = [y(1:3); y1(4:end-3); y(end-2:end)];

Answer 2

[Jonathan Sullivan]

You'll want to check the size of them. Sounds like one or more of your vectors are column vectors [Nx1]. You want to make sure they are all row vectors {1xN] if you are going to concatenate them horizontally. Either that, or use the vertical concatenation syntax as follows.

[a; b; c]

Answer 3

[Wayne King]

y is definitely a column vector, is y1 a row vector?

iscolumn(y)
isrow(y1)

If you do

    y = y';

That should fix the problem.