Re: help with simple data transform
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- Subject: [mg37794] Re: [mg37734] help with simple data transform
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:11:11 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 05:38 AM, Terrell Mitchell wrote: > > I am trying to help a friend at a University create some plots of his > data. I have a trial version of Mathematica and it looks like it will > do the job, but I need help with a simple problem. > > I have written some code to massage the data and put it in forms for > reading into Mathematica. > > I will be doing a surface plot and want to provide can provide my own > triangulation data. > > I will have data of the form > n n n n > n n n n n n > n n n n n > n n > I can read this into lists and end up with > {n,n,n,n},{n,n,n,n,n,n},{n,n,n,n,n},{n,n} > I need to turn this into > {n,{n,n,n}},{n,{n,n,n,n,n}},{n,{n,n,n,n}},{n,{n}} > to use as the triangulation data. > > Can some kind soul provide me with some Mathematica code to transfrom > my > data into the proper format. There are so many features, there must be > some simple transformation code. > > The following will take a list and put the remainder into a sublist f[x_List]:={First[x],Rest[x]} Regards, Ssezi