{"id":7799,"date":"2022-09-10T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T04:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-non-scalar-in-uniform-output-error-in-arrayfun-how-to-fix\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T04:59:12","slug":"solved-non-scalar-in-uniform-output-error-in-arrayfun-how-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-non-scalar-in-uniform-output-error-in-arrayfun-how-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Non-scalar in Uniform output error in arrayfun. How to fix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-30416299\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"30416299\" data-parentid=\"30407920\" data-score=\"2\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The error message give you a big hint where to look:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Undefined operator &#8216;+&#8217; for input arguments of type &#8216;cell&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Error in <strong>gbp2\/pts<\/strong> (line 36)<br \/>\n  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ylist(z) = ylist(z) + arrayfun(@(coor) u(z, coor, mode, w, R,<br \/>\n  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Psi),xlist(z).&#8217;,&#8217;uniformoutput&#8217;,false);<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From the documentation for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/arrayfun.html\"><code>arrayfun<\/code><\/a> and the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/arrayfun.html?refresh=true#namevaluepairs\"><code>'UniformOutput'<\/code><\/a> option:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Requests that the <strong>arrayfun<\/strong> function combine the outputs into cell arrays <strong>B1,&#8230;,Bm<\/strong>. The outputs of function <strong>func<\/strong> can be of any size or type.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, if you check, the output of this line is a cell array:<\/p>\n<pre><code>arrayfun(@(coor) u(z, coor, mode, w, R, Psi),xlist(z),'uniformoutput',false)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You can&#8217;t sum the values from the cell array directly. Here&#8217;s one of several ways you can do this:<\/p>\n<pre><code>v = arrayfun(@(coor) u(z, coor, mode, w, R, Psi),xlist(z),'uniformoutput',false);\nylist(z) = ylist(z) + [v{:}];\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t see why you need to used the <code>'UniformOutput'<\/code> option or even the slow <code>arrayfun<\/code> at all. Just vectorize your function with respect to <code>coor<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre><code>u = @(z, coor, mode, w, R, Psi)(2\/pi)^(1\/4)*sqrt(exp(1i*(2*mode+1)*Psi)\/(2^mode*factorial(mode)*w))*...\n        hermiteH(mode,sqrt(2)*coor\/w).*exp(-coor.^2*(1\/w^2+1i*k\/(2*R))-1i*k*z);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Now<\/p>\n<pre><code>ylist(z) = ylist(z) + u(z, xlist(z), mode, w, R, Psi);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>\nSome additional suggestions: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/answers\/51946-systematic-do-not-use-global-don-t-use-eval\">Don&#8217;t use<\/a> <code>global<\/code> variables \u2013 they&#8217;re inefficient and there are almost always better solutions. If <code>pts<\/code> is meant to be a nested function, you&#8217;re missing a closing <code>end<\/code> for the main <code>gbp2<\/code> function. It might be a good idea to rename your variable <code>mode<\/code> so that it doesn&#8217;t overload the built-in function of the same name. <code>Psif<\/code> isn&#8217;t defined. And <code>zeros(1,size(xlist(z),2))<\/code> can be written simply as <code>zeros(size(xlist(z)))<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">5<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Non-scalar in Uniform output error in arrayfun. How to fix? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The error message give you a big hint where to look: Undefined operator &#8216;+&#8217; for input arguments of type &#8216;cell&#8217;. 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