array indices must be positive intergers or logical values - not sure why i am getting this error message. same code worked for a friend of mine.

clf reset 
x=0:0.1:1;
y=[0.9,6.9,31.6,21.5,34.4,68.2,66.4,114.9,155.9,199.3,209.6];
p1=polyfit(x,y,1);

% the code below calculates the r2 values. You can just copy and paste this
% code after your polyfit to find r2 (as long as you use x,y and p1)  
% The polyval function evaluates the equation of the fit at the values of x. 
yhat_1=polyval(p1,x);
% coefficient of determination 
r2=(sum((y-mean(y)).^2)-sum((y-yhat_1).^2))/sum((y-mean(y)).^2);
fprintf('fit y=%.2fx%+.2f \nR2=%.2f\n', p1(1), p1(2),r2);

[John McCann]

error is for the line :

r2=(sum((y-mean(y)).^2)-sum((y-yhat_1).^2))/sum((y-mean(y)).^2);

[KSSV]

The given code runs fine. There is no error. I am not sure why you are getting error. Check your lines of code run and given here are same or not.

clf reset 
x=0:0.1:1;
y=[0.9,6.9,31.6,21.5,34.4,68.2,66.4,114.9,155.9,199.3,209.6];
p1=polyfit(x,y,1);

% the code below calculates the r2 values. You can just copy and paste this
% code after your polyfit to find r2 (as long as you use x,y and p1)  
% The polyval function evaluates the equation of the fit at the values of x. 
yhat_1=polyval(p1,x);
% coefficient of determination 
r2=(sum((y-mean(y)).^2)-sum((y-yhat_1).^2))/sum((y-mean(y)).^2);
fprintf('fit y=%.2fx%+.2f \nR2=%.2f\n', p1(1), p1(2),r2);

fit y=218.62x-26.62 
R2=0.91

[John McCann]

defintely the same code, even when i run it in a brand new script i still get the error

[John McCann]

somehow it works now, not sure what the problem was but restarting matlab a few times worked.

thanks for you help

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Read about clear. When you feel you are done with your previous code, then you can clear all your workspace variables and then run the fresh code. It looks there might be a variable conflict earlier when there was error.

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

My guess is that earlier in that code you created variables named sum and/or mean. Attempts to call sum and/or mean while variables named sum and/or mean exist generally will not work, they will be interpreted as attempts to index into the variable.