How to add two sets of imported data?

Hi

I am currently working on a program that requires me to add two sets of data that is imported in tables. However whenever I run the code, I get this error message:

Operator '+' is not supported for operands of type 'table'.

Error in MastersDraft_1 (line 3)

Moisture_content = plus(Lime_additioncombinedprdts,Lime_additioncombinedprdtsratio);

How do I fix it?

[KSSV]

You cannot add tables like that. You want to join tables or add the respective columns?

[Jan]

Adding tables is not meaningful in a mathematical sense. AS KSSV has mentioned already, joining the tables might be meant, or adding the contents of the table.

[Ashley Bhugwandin]

How would I add the respective columns?

Thanks

[Peter Perkins]

Please see my post below.

Answer 1

[Siddharth Bhutiya]

Starting R2023a, tables now directly support arithmetic operations like plus, minus, sum, etc. So this kind of work becomes very easy. You can directly add two tables or numeric values to a table.

T1 = table([1;3],[2;4]);
T2 = table([1;2],[3;4]);
T = T1 + 10

T = 2×2 table
    Var1    Var2
    ____    ____

     11      12 
     13      14 

T = T1 + T2

T = 2×2 table
    Var1    Var2
    ____    ____

     2       5  
     5       8  

You can find more information about what things are now supported here: Direct Calculations on Tables and Timetables

Answer 2

[Peter Perkins]

Ashley, there's a long example in the doc that talks about "how to perform calculations by using the numeric and categorical data that the table contains" at length:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/computations-with-numeric-data-in-table-or-timetable.html

Without more information in your question, the short answer is to do things like

t.X = t.X + 1

or

tplus1 = varfun(@(x)x+1,t)

or perhaps

t{:,["X" "Y" "Z"]) = t{:,["X" "Y" "Z"]) + 1

or

t.Variables = t.Variables + 1