Re: Many data points frustration
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- Subject: [mg14937] Re: [mg14899] Many data points frustration
- From: Jurgen Tischer <jtischer at col2.telecom.com.co>
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:49:34 -0500
- Organization: Universidad del Valle
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Hi Brian,
try using something like
reallyBig[x_] := If[ByteCount[x] > 200000, Shallow[x], x];
$Post = reallyBig;
I have it in the init.m file. Sometimes it produces ugly things but then
you can just shut it with
$Post=.
Jurgen
Brian Boonstra wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Has anyone come across a way of, say, setting a maximum amount
of
> output per cell? I have several lists of 15,000 data points I need to
> manipulate. If I forget a semicolon, or have a typo, I am often
> treated to a five minute wait while Mathematica prints (an obvious
> error message and) 15,000 irrelevant data points.
>
> One can, of course, turn off some error messages with the Off[]
> function, but this does not completely solve the problem. What I want
> is for Mathematica to recognize I couldn't possibly want to see all
> that stuff.
>
> For a toy version of the problem, see below, and imagine many more
> points:
>
> In[8]:=
> Off[General::spell1]
>
> In[9]:=
> sins = Table[N[Sin[2 Pi i/10]],{i,20}];
>
> In[10]:=
> ListPlo[sins]
>
> Out[10]=
> ListPlo[{0.587785,0.951057,0.951057,0.587785,
>
> 0,-0.587785,-0.951057,-0.951057,-0.587785,0,0.587785,0.951057,0.951057,
> 0.587785,0,-0.587785,-0.951057,-0.951057,-0.587785,0}]
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
>
> _______________________________
> Dr Brian K Boonstra
> Vice President, Quantitative Research
>
> First National Bank of Chicago
> 1 First National Plaza
> Chicago, Illinois 60670
- References:
- Re: Bivariate Normal Distributions -- can they be estimated in my lifetime?
- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Many data points = frustration
- From: Brian Boonstra <boonstb@cmg.FCNBD.COM>
- Re: Bivariate Normal Distributions -- can they be estimated in my lifetime?