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Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera
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Philip Nienhuis |
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Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera |
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Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:56:53 -0700 (PDT) |
Roman.Griego wrote:
>
>
>>>Great code, why do you grab the first two lines? in case headers spill
over?
>
>>>Why do you remove zeros ?
>
>
> The original data was an csv export of a sql query done in excel. I
> grabbed the first two lines because row one was my header, the second was
> a related piece of data that didn't really belong with the rest of the
> data. I stripped the zeros because I was making histograms from the data.
> The zeros were added from dlmread to make all the rows the same length, in
> my case all my data are integers greater than one.
>
Can't you just read it directly from the Excel file then?
There is direct .xls R/W support in octave nowadays (using the octave-forge
io pkg).
Empty cells in an Excel range are read as NaNs which -reading postings
earlier in the thread- might come in handy, too.
Philip
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- : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera, Roman.Griego, 2010/09/01
- Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera, Justin Cress, 2010/09/01
- Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera, fork, 2010/09/01
- Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera, Jaroslav Hajek, 2010/09/01
- Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera, justin.cress, 2010/09/01
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- Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera, Roman.Griego, 2010/09/07