Re: How to subtract two sets of data for a ListPlot
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- Subject: [mg76691] Re: [mg76672] How to subtract two sets of data for a ListPlot
- From: "Patrick Scheibe" <mai99dnn at studserv.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 04:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
when you just want to plot the data and your x-values are 1,2,3..
then you can simply write
(list1 - list2)[[All, 2]]
and you get the subtracted y-values.
ListPlot will do the rest because it assumes that your x-values are in the
order you had.
Cheers
Patrick
Am 25.05.2007, 12:45 Uhr, schrieb chuck009 <dmilioto at comcast.com>:
> Hi all. Suppose I've calculated two sets of lists of the form for
> example:
>
> list1={{1,1},{2,2},{3,3}};
>
> list2={{1,1},{2,4},{3,9}};
>
> What's an efficient way to create a third list with the same x-values
> but with the y-values subtracted
>
> newlist={{1,0},{2,-2},{3,-6}};
>
> I realize I can manually subtract them in a For-loop, but I'm sure a
> one-line command using Map or some other construct can be used as well
> but can't figure it out.
>
> Thanks!
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- How to subtract two sets of data for a ListPlot