Hi Angelo,
To achieve your goal of adding "Legal" and "Greater60" columns to Table 1, you can use the "groupsummary" and "outerjoin" functions in MATLAB. Here's a concise solution:
% Summarize Legal and Greater60 for each unique trap in Table 2
summaryTable = groupsummary(table2, {'Year', 'Site', 'Week', 'Trap'}, 'sum', {'Legal', 'Greater60'});
The "groupsummary" function is used to efficiently calculate the sum of Legal and Greater60 values for each unique combination of "Year", "Site", "Week", and "Trap" in Table 2. This function helps in aggregating data based on specified groups.
% Merge the summarized data with Table 1
resultTable = outerjoin(table1, summaryTable, 'Keys', {'Year', 'Site', 'Week', 'Trap'}, ...
'MergeKeys', true, 'Type', 'left');
The "outerjoin" function is then used to merge this summarized data with Table 1. It ensures that all rows from Table 1 are retained, even if there are no corresponding entries in Table 2, by performing a left join. This is important to maintain the structure of Table 1 while adding the new columns.
To read more about this functions, refer to the below MATLAB documentation:
- https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/double.groupsummary.html
- https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/table.outerjoin.html
I hope this helps!