Re: importing and using data
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- Subject: [mg17182] Re: importing and using data
- From: Harald Giese <giese at dkrz.de>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:20:56 -0400
- Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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Doug VanGoethem wrote: > > I have a large, one column data set in a tab-delimited text file. It > appears to read correctly when I use data=ReadList["filename", Number], but > when I tried to do a ListPlot or perform a Fourier transform I get an error > message that says it is not a list of numbers or pairs of numbers. I have > also tried data=Transpose[Readlist[....]], but this did not make any > difference. > > Has anyone encountered this before or know how to fix it? > Thanks, > Doug V Doug, it should work. So give us an example (4 to 5 lines) of your file. -Harald -- Harald Giese Email: giese at dkrz.de > NEUE TELEFON-NUMMER | NEW PHONE-NUMBER < Phone: +49 (0)40 42838 5796; Fax: +49 (0)40 5605724 Institut fuer Meereskunde der Universitaet Hamburg (Institute of Oceanography of the University of Hamburg) Troplowitzstrasse 7, D-22529 Hamburg