Hi When I try to install SPM8 I get the following error message:Initialising SPM...Error using fileparts Too many output arguments. Error in cfg_util>local_initapps (line 1217) [p n

Hi When I try to install SPM8 I get the following error message:Initialising SPM...Error using fileparts Too many output arguments.

Error in cfg_util>local_initapps (line 1217) [p n e v] = fileparts(appcfgs{k});

Error in cfg_util (line 587) local_initapps;

Error in spm_jobman (line 149) cfg_util('initcfg'); % This must be the first call to cfg_util

Error in spm (line 344) spm_jobman('initcfg');

Error while evaluating uicontrol Callback

What am I supposed to do? Thanks for your help Pierre

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

According to fileparts, this function returns at most three output parameters

 [pathstr,name,ext] = fileparts(filename)

whereas in your code, there is an attempt to retrieve four

 [p n e v] = fileparts(appcfgs{k});

You will need to remove the v parameter from the output list (line 1217 of local_initapps) and check to see how this parameter is used elsewhere in the code.

NOTE I just downloaded SPM8, and the local_initapps function (in the cfg_util.m file) did not have the v parameter

 function local_initapps
 % add application data
 if isdeployed
    cfg_mlbatch_appcfg_master;
 else
    appcfgs = which('cfg_mlbatch_appcfg','-all');
    cwd = pwd;
    dirs = cell(size(appcfgs));
    for k = 1:numel(appcfgs)
        % cd into directory containing config file
        [p n e] = fileparts(appcfgs{k});    % three output params only

Perhaps try downloading the SPM8 code again to get the correct (most recent?) version. The version info in this file was

 % $Id: cfg_util.m 4252 2011-03-15 17:49:51Z volkmar $

Perhaps you are using an older version (?)

[Pierre Brugieres]

I have downloaded a new version of SPM8 and it works now OK. the old version neverthlessed worked also well with matlab 2011... Thank you Geoff! Pierre