How can I add a table (independent of fig data) under figure?

I want to add a a table (example table below) under one of my figures. I can't use legends because the data for the figure and the table aren't parallel to one another, the table is just a detailed explanation of other components.

[Jan]

What about using an uitable? What exactly means "under my figure"? A "figure" is the complete window. Do you mean "under a certain axes"?

[egg]

Yes, I meant axes! Sorry I'm a little new to the terminology. I can currently make two subplots, and I want to make the second one a table rather than a plot/graph.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

In addition to Jan's UI table suggestion, you could convert the table to a character array and use text() to plot the array on an invisible axes. Here's a demo.

% Create table
LastName = {'Sanchez','Johnson','Danz'}; 
Age = [38,43,40]; 
Height = [71, 69, 71]; 
T = table(LastName',Age',Height','VariableNames',{'LastName','Age','Height'}); 

% plot some data in the main axes
figure()
axes('position',[.1,.4,.8,.5])
plot(Age,Height,'o')
xlabel('Age')
ylabel('Height'); 

% Convert Table to cell to char array
tableCell = [T.Properties.VariableNames; table2cell(T)]; 
tableCell(cellfun(@isnumeric,tableCell)) = cellfun(@num2str, tableCell(cellfun(@isnumeric,tableCell)),'UniformOutput',false); 
tableChar = splitapply(@strjoin,pad(tableCell),[1;2;3;4]);

% Add axes (not visible) & text (use a fixed width font)
axes('position',[.1,.1,.8,.2], 'Visible','off')
text(.2,.95,tableChar,'VerticalAlignment','Top','HorizontalAlignment','Left','FontName','Consolas');

If you'd like to implement Jan's suggestion to insert a UI table, this should get you started (following the example above).

uit = uitable('Data', table2cell(T),'ColumnName',T.Properties.VariableNames,...
    'Units', 'Normalized', 'Position',[0.2,0.05,0.6,0.25]);

[egg]

Wow thank you! While this doesn't work for the project I asked about ( I need the formatting to be more similar to that of a table - titles underlined etc) it certainly helps with another file.

[Adam Danz]

See updated answer that implements a UI table.

[egg]

Thank you!

[Adam Danz]

No problem!