MATLAB: I receive these warning messages? Could you give me a hand, please

Question

I receive these warning messages after installing MATLAB R2015b. Do these problems arise because I install MATLAB file in D drive or because I already installed another version of MATLAB before?

Warning: Function loglog has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function plot has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function rbbox has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function semilogx has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function semilogy has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function text has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function fill3 has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict. ……..

Warning: Function ne_reserved has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function ssc_reserved has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Warning: Function pyversion has the same name as a MATLAB builtin. We suggest you rename the function to avoid a potential name conflict.

Also, whenever I click any button (e.g., clicking "set path", or clicking "close"), I receive this message as below.

(Error in pathtool (line 11) error(javachk('swing', mfilename));

Attempt to execute SCRIPT builtin as a function: D:\\toolbox\matlab\lang\builtin.m

I would appreciate it if anyone answers to my question 🙂 Thank you for reading.

Answer 1

What operating system are you using? It looks like you have a version installed to D:\\toolbox\matlab - not sure why there are two slashes after the colon though. I agree with dpb that you should uninstall everything. If you're using Windows, then do it from the control panel "Programs and Features" icon. Then edit your path environment variable to see if it mentions any MATLAB folders. What might be happening is that some old version of MATLAB is on the search path so it finds it. If it does contain any MATLAB folders still (after uninstall), get rid of them and save the new path. Then reinstall.

You might also look at the command "restoredefaultpath".