How do you order table columns based on a vector with their names?

I have a table, "patients", with 5 columns. I would like these columns to follow the pattern determined by the cell, "order".

How could I do this?

Reproduction steps:

>> load patients
>> patients = table(Age,Gender,Height,Weight,Smoker,...
    'RowNames',LastName);
>> order = {'Gender', 'Gender', 'Age', 'Gender', 'Smoker',...
    'Smoker', 'Weight', 'Height', 'Weight'};

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This can be done by indexing into the table with the "order" cell.

Note: Table columns cannot repeat names so "Age" will only appear once, and all subsequent ones will have the value "Age_1", "Age_2"...

 

>> patients2 = patients(:,order)