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Re: Newbie: plot data from a text file?

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• Subject: [mg43835] Re: Newbie: plot data from a text file?
• From: "Lisa M. Downward" <lmd at physics.ucsc.edu>
• Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 04:47:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Check out the 'Import' function in the help file.  It allows you to import 
data in a file into a Mathematica List then you can use 'ListPlot' (also 
in the Help file; you will need to load the Graphics package for 
ListPlot).


 --Lisa


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, McGee wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> (I checked the manual and online help for this but I haven't found
> anything).
> 
> I have some C code that generates ordered (x,y) pairs of data. I'd
> like to be able to simply use Mathematica to plot this data. I don't
> see any arguments to Plot[] that allow this, nor do I see an
> alternative.
> 
>  Am I missing something obvious? Or is Mathematica the wrong tool for
> this . . .
> 
> Thanks,
> McGee
> 
> 

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