Re: Excel Data in Octave

[indium]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:00:31AM -0700, Timothy Field wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Octave (one week) and I would like to use data from Excel
> spreadsheets in Octave.
> 
> I have spent hours researching what I need in order to that and have ended
> up with many dead ends.
> 
> I am running Snow Leopard, have X11 and have Octave 3.4.0 installed. I have
> looked into setting up the io package, for functions like 'xlsread' and
> 'csvread', but to no avail.
> 
> What do I need in order to install packages on an OSX 10.6.8 macbook pro?
> 
> I downloaded the package (io-1.0.18) and it was saved in the Downloads
> folder. I added addpath ('/Users/user/Downloads') but 'pkg install -verbose
> io-1.0.18.tar.gz' did not work. I got 'warning: file io-1.0.18.tar.gz does
> not exist'. I know I'm in the right path, and I've tried the recommended
> install commands. I've been sent all over the forum and online for fixes to
> problems that are roughly similar, but none have worked out or really
> applied.
> 
> So, how would I install the io package?
> 
> But more importantly, whats the best way to take excel data and use it in
> octave?
> 
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I think you should add a './' in front of your filename, to tell octave that 
the file is in the current directory.

pkg install -verbose ./io-1.0.18.tar.gz

after that: try xlsopen('./myspreadsheet.xls')

(assuming the xls file is also in the current directory)

hope this helps, 

indium