Change row vector to column vector

Question

How can I change this into a column, at the moment all 750 entries are on one row?

p = normal(1:750)-1;

I have tried:

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Answer 1

Setting

p = p(:);

is indeed the best approach, because it will reliably create column vector.

Beware of the use of the ' operator to do transpose. I have seen it fail dramatically many times. The matlab operator for non-conjugate transpose is actually .' so you would do:

p = p.'

if you want to do transpose without taking the complex conjugate.

Answer 2

It is common practice in MATLAB to use the colon operator : for converting anything into a column vector. Without knowing or caring if normal is a row vector or a column vector, you can force p to be a column vector, like so:

p = p(:);

After this, p is guaranteed to be a column vector.

Answer 3

I would imagine you could just transpose:

p = (normal(1:750)-1)'