MATLAB: Problem reading table from spreadsheet

Question

When I use eg by matlab and load data by following everything works

load patients

whos

e.g this code

T = table(Age,Gender,Height,Weight,Smoker,...
    'RowNames',LastName)

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But when i use my own excel sheet same data no code works, pleas guide my code is as follows

T=readtable("patients.xls");
T = table(Age,Gender,Height,Weight,Smoker,...
    'RowNames',LastName)

Answer 1

The result of readtable() is already a table . But you might want to

T = readtable("patients.xls");
T.Properties.RowNames = T.LastName;