assign summary of a category to new variables

Hi everyone,

I have the following code:

A = categorical({'plane'; 'car'; 'train'; 'car'; 'plane'});
summary(A)

here is the output:

>> Untitled
     car        2 
     plane      2 
     train      1

I want to assign the summary to a new variable. So I tried using b=summary(A), and got:

>> Untitled
Error using categorical/summary (line 98)
Too many output arguments.

Error in Untitled (line 2)
b=summary(A)

please help me fix this problem

Thanks

Peng

Answer 1

[Matt J]

You can do this,

>> b=evalc('summary(A)')

    b =

         car        2 
         plane      2 
         train      1

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

Or

c = categorical({'plane'; 'car'; 'train'; 'car'; 'plane'})
b = table(categories(c),countcats(c))