Error message when generating table from workspace variables

I tried to generate a table using the example provided in the documentation:

>> T = table(['M';'F';'M'],[45;32;34],...
    {'NY';'CA';'MA'},logical([1;0;0]),...
    'VariableNames',{'Gender' 'Age' 'State' 'Vote'})

Error using subsindex
Function 'subsindex' is not defined for values of class 'cell'.*

But got an error message! Please help!!

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Isabel:

I copied and pasted your code and it worked fine . You probably have an m-file called table.m , perhaps even the one that your code is in. That would be bad because it would conflict with the built-in table() function. What does this say

which -all table

Also, in your code, right before that line put this:

whos table

What does all that say in the command window?

Answer 2

[Isabel Chen]

Oh goodness, thanks! This came up:

>> whos table
  Name       Size            Bytes  Class    Attributes

    table      4x6              2840  cell               

>> which -all table
table is a variable.
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014b\toolbox\matlab\datatypes\@table\table.m  % Shadowed table constructor

I'm not actually sure where this 4x6 table came from, I don't remember explicitly creating it. But after deleting it, generating a new table worked fine. Thank you!!