Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera

[Philip Nienhuis]

Roman.Griego wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Great code, why do you grab the first two lines? in case headers spill
over?
> 
>>>Why do you remove zeros ?
> 
> 
> The original data was an csv export of a sql query done in excel. I
> grabbed the first two lines because row one was my header, the second was
> a related piece of data that didn't really belong with the rest of the
> data. I stripped the zeros because I was making histograms from the data.
> The zeros were added from dlmread to make all the rows the same length, in
> my case all my data are integers greater than one.
> 

Can't you just read it directly from the Excel file then?
There is direct .xls R/W support in octave nowadays (using the octave-forge
io pkg). 
Empty cells in an Excel range are read as NaNs which -reading postings
earlier in the thread- might come in handy, too.

Philip
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