Error using load Unable to read file 'iris'. No such file or directory.

I am starting to learn machine learning and starting with the basic iris knn classification. prior to anything though, I am noticing that I can't load the iris.data file that I downloaded from https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris . My project is going to be located in the folder "ML Project", but to be sure, I have placed a copy of iris.data into all three top paths and I still get the error. Any idea what may be going wrong? I have added Fuzzy Logic and Machine Learning toolboxes.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

When you do not give a file extension when you load(), then the only one MATLAB will search for is .mat . Your file is a .data file extension, so you would need to specify that.

However, the file is a text file that includes names, so you cannot load() it .

t = readtable('iris.data');
labels = t{:,end};
iris = t{:,1:end-1};