What is causing this, 'Function 'subsindex' is not defined for values of class 'cell'.'?

It worked once before and now it will not give the time of day. Can anyone with this issue?

last = {'Smith';'Jones';'Webb';'Anderson'};
first = {'Fred';'Kathy';'Milton';'Johnn'};
age = [6;22;92;45];
height = [47;66;62;72];
weight = [82;140;110;190];
table(last,first,age,height,weight)

This is the error

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

Answer 1

[Jan]

You have redefined the term "table" as a variable. See:

which table -all

This so called shadowing causes troubles frequently. The solution is easy: Avoid using names of built-in functions as variables. In your case:

tableback = table;
clear('table');

Then your code runs successfully.

[Daryl Hurwitz]

Thank you!

[Stephen23]

@Daryl Hurwitz: you should accept this answer if it resolves your question.

[Rina Blomberg]

OH GOD!! THANK YOU!! Had the same problem and it was doing my head in!!

[Mattijs Mientki]

Could you explain how he redefined table? He is just using the table function in the code right? I have a similar issue but with subsindex of string and I have no clue how it works or what is the problem

[Stephen23]

@Mattijs Mientki: table was redefined like this:

table = ...

It might have been in some code written by the OP, or perhaps in some third-party code that they (unknowingly) called, but the end results is that table ended up being something that was not the inbuilt function.

Use which to check which function/variable/... are mapped to that name:

which table -all