Re: Please add me to this group
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- Subject: [mg117086] Re: Please add me to this group
- From: hrh1818 <hrhan at att.net>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:00:46 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 8, 5:02 am, Len Horton <hort... at bellsouth.net> wrote: > As a new user of Mathematica and as a purchaser of the Home Edition, > which does not include any support, I am trying to figure out how to > take data from an Excel spreadsheet into Mathematica to analyze and > graph. > > I have taken a couple of free seminars on line, but I have not been able > to figure out how to do just a few basic statistical things. Each > column in my spreadsheet is a variable. In order to produce a histogra= m > of one of those variables, I had to open the spreadsheet in Excel, copy > the column, then paste it into the curly braces inside the Histogram > function, then eliminate the carriage returns manually while inserting > commas manually in order to produce the Histogram. Surely there must b= e > a faster way. > > In the first place, I cannot tell where to place the Excel file so that > Mathematica knows where it is. Anything you could do to get me started > would be much appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Len Horton > Atlanta Export your Excel data using CSV format and import data into Mathematica. See: <Vhttp://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/format/CSV.html> Howard