readtable: no Constant property or Static method named 'init'

Hi,

I am using matlab 2019b but I expereienced the exact same probelm on 2020b installed on a different machine.

I am trying to use readtable function

logEvent = readtable(filename, opts);

but I get an error message:

Error using matlab.io.ImportOptions/readtable (line 499)

The class table has no Constant property or Static method named 'init'.

the code used to be working fine previously when working with some other files.

I tried to re-install MATLAB but it did not help.

Even when I try to use "import Data" menu I get an error message saying that

The import toll doesn't have access to read the file.

an obviously I do have access (read and write) to a local folder on my computer.

Any idea what may be wrong?

BR

Afshin

[Menghuan]

Hi, how did you deal with this error information then. Now I faced the same problem as you. A few days ago, it works perfectly well with the readtable function, but now it report errors:

Error using readtable.

The class table has no Constant property or Static method named 'init'.

I don't have any idea what is going on.

Answer 1

[Sophia Snipes]

You likely have a script "table.m" somewhere, that took over the MATLAB native one. It may be a legacy version that is not compatible with later releases of MATLAB.

[Walter Roberson]

It is more common for the problem to turn out to be that the user has third party software installed that has a function with the same name as one of MATLAB's functions. For example there is a third party toolbox that defines a function named "set" that causes problems and was always doomed to failure as "set" is a very old matlab function... the authors should have known better. There is a different toolbox that defines "height" which is a bit more justified for older software as height() only become a matlab function after table() objects were introduced.