Out of memory. The likely cause is an infinite recursion within the program.

Hello,

I am receiving the following error message:

Out of memory. The likely cause is an infinite recursion within the program.

Error in fileparts (line 35)

elseif ~isrow(file)

I have already tried renaming as well as deleting the isrow.m fime in my eeglab folder with the Matlab folder. I have also tried removing the entire folder that contain the isrow.m file from the path but am still receiving the same error message.

*Thank you for any assistance*

[awezmm]

Were you getting the same exact error before deleting or renaming the isrow.m file? And what code are you running when you get this error?

[Walter Roberson]

If you did not happen to do so, either quit matlab and reenter, or else

clear all

[Sonja Joshi]

I was getting this error before deleting or renaming the isrow.m file and I was just trying to open eeglab when this error message opened. I have also tried using clear all and restarting up Matlab to no avail.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

You, or some code you've downloaded is shadowing the isrow.m function of matlab.

Hopefully, the isrow.m you've deleted is not the matlab one (otherwise, you'll have to reinstall matlab I'm afraid) but the shadowing one.

Two toolboxes that have been shown to shadow essential built-in matlab functions:

• The biosig plugin of eeglab
• The fieldtrip toolbox (whatever that is)

That latter one in particular caused exactly the error reported here.

[Sonja Joshi]

Hello all,

Thank you so much for your input. We ended up installing the older 2018 version of eeglab and that somehow corrected the issue.

Thanks again!

[Walter Roberson]

YARPIZ might also shadow some MATLAB functions, such as nchoosek.m

Answer 2

[Arhant Jain]

Inside the eeglab lab folder, just delete the folder associated with fieldtrip box. It will solve your problem.