My fillmissing function doesnt do moving methods

Hi, so I got

A = [1 2 5;4 5 7;NaN -1 8;7 6 0]

and i wanted to make

A = fillmissing(A,'movmean',2)

but I got an error

Error using fillmissing/parseInputs (line 318)
Fill method must be 'constant', 'previous', 'next', 'nearest', 'linear', 'spline', or 'pchip'

And I got R2016b, and it works with previous, nearest, linear, etc

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

As per the release notes the moving mean option was introduced in R2017a.

[Tiago Dias]

ok thanks, in the matlab page of fillmissing, since it said "Introduced in R2016b" I thought it was all introduced at that specific time. thanks, will download the version i need

[Guillaume]

Yes, it would be very helpful if the doc also told you when major changes to a function was introduced, not just when the function was introduced.

Answer 2

[Birdman]

Go to your MATLAB root folder and search for fillmissing.m file. Then open it, go to line 350 and see if the cell array at that line contains movmean.

[Guillaume]

No! Don't do that. You should never modify any of the files in matlab root folder and its subfolders. This is likely to result in a corrupt installation of matlab.

[Birdman]

I did not say modifying. I just wanted him to take a look whether that option is included or not in the m file. I did not say anything about changing the file.

[Steven Lord]

Even if you don't intend to modify the file, it's easy to accidentally modify the file when it's open in the Editor.

If you want to display a subset of the lines in a file, you could use dbtype to do so. The formatting isn't as nice in the Command Window output of dbtype as the formatting of the file in the Editor is, but the dbtype output is read-only.

[Birdman]

Hmm, I get it. I did not mean to modify it of course, but when this kind of problem occurs, I find it useful to go and look at the m file to see whether the necessary line is included or not. Thanks for the suggestion.