error Attempt to execute SCRIPT kmeans as a function:

Attempt to execute SCRIPT kmeans as a function:

C:\Users\........\kmeans.m

Error in kmeans (line 18)

[idx, centers sum, dist] = kmeans(data(:,1:4), 3, 'MaxIter', i);

How can I solve this?

Answer 1

[Stephan]

Rename your script. kmeans is an inbuild function, which is shadowed by your script. In general script names should not be named ike inbuild functions to avoid problems.

which kmeans -al

should not result in something like this:

>> which kmeans -all
C:\Users\ABCDE\Projects\kmeans.m
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2020a\toolbox\stats\bigdata\@tall\kmeans.m  % tall method
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2020a\toolbox\stats\gpu\@gpuArray\kmeans.m  % gpuArray method
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2020a\toolbox\stats\stats\kmeans.m          % Shadowed

If there are also results from your script folder, you know there is a problem.