insert elements of vector in cols of a mat

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you can use reshape , to adjust it without copying data internally (it just changes rows/cols members of the Mat):

// demo vector
vector<float> f {1,2,3,4,5};
Mat m(f, true); // deep copy (if you wanted that, - use false, if you did not) !

// now we have a single column:
cerr << m << endl;
[1;
 2;
 3;
 4;
 5]

// let's reshape it to a single row:
m = m.reshape(1,1);
cerr << m << endl;
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

// and, just for the show, back to a column:
m = m.reshape(1, m.total());
cerr << m << endl;
[1;
 2;
 3;
 4;
 5]