MATLAB: How to take the power of elements in a table

powertable operationstables

I have a table called NYLD1 and I want to create some new variables that are the squares and cubes of the variables columns 29:32 so I wrote the following:
cur_varnames = NYLD1.Properties.VariableNames;
for K = [29:32]
  thisvarname = cur_varnames{K};
  thisval = NYLD1.(thisvarname);
  sq_varname = [thisvarname '2'];
  cu_varname = [thisvarname '3'];
  NYLD1.(sq_varname) = thisval .^ 2;
  NYLD1.(cu_varname) = thisval .^ 3;
end
However, I get the following error when I run this:
Undefined function 'power' for input arguments of type 'table'.
How can I fix this?

Best Answer

Based on the error you cite, it seems that one or more of those variables are themselves tables. Nothing wrong with that, you'll just have to do something slightly different.
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