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RE: ReadList and columns

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  • Subject: [mg73956] RE: [mg73873] ReadList and columns
  • From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts at aapt.net.au>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:21:33 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <200703021137.GAA03851@smc.vnet.net>

Hi Mary Beth

> Here is sample of what au1  then looks like according to Mathematica:
> 
>  {{350,0.00023179,0.0001804},{360,0.0038609,0.002927},{370,0.0075302,
> 0.0058464},{380,0.008159,0.006915},{390,0.0076243,0.0068103}}
> 
> which if I put in table form looks like:
> 
> au1//TableForm
> 
> 350    0.00023179    0.0001804
> 360    0.0038609    0.002927
> 370    0.0075302    0.0058464
> 380    0.008159    0.006915
> 390    0.0076243    0.0068103
> 
> 
> So in the end what I want to do is make a MultipleListPlot 
> using the left column as the "x" column and then the two 
> other as "y" columns.  Since with EDA I have been calling 
> each column in as a separate variable, I simply transpose the 
> two columns I want to plot to get my {x, y} points.  That 
> doesn't work here.  When I call up the columns, I get a list 
> of individual
> numbers:
> 
> input:     au1[[All,{1}]]
> output:  {{350},{360},{370},{380},{390}}
> 
> input:     au1[[All,{2}]]
> output:   
> {{0.00023179},{0.0038609},{0.0075302},{0.008159},{0.0076243}}
> 
> And when I try and transpose the lists 
> (Transpose[au1[[All,{1}]], au1[[All,
> {2}]]]) I get an error message saying the dimensions of my 
> array are incorrect.
> 
> I know that I need Mathematica to read my columns like this:
> {350,360,370,380,390} without the extra curly brackets and 
> which I believe would be a single array, but I can't figure 
> out how to do it.  I would really appreciate any help.

You're kind of on the right track ....

Given

	data = {{350, 0.00023179, 0.0001804}, {360, 0.0038609, 0.002927}, 
			{370, 0.0075302,0.0058464}, {380, 0.008159,
0.006915}, {390, 0.0076243, 0.0068103}};

One sequence of commands to get you what you want is

	pdata = Transpose@data; (* essentially isolates each of the columns
*)
	pdata = {First@pdata, pdata[[#]]} & /@ Range[2, Length@pdata] (*
form pairs always using the first column as the first
entry in each array *)
	pdata = Map[Transpose, pdata] (* place your data into the correct
form for MLP *)
	MultipleListPlot[pdata]; (* 'nuff said *)

It should be straightforward for you to write a function that does this
stuff automagically.

Regards,

Dave.


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