Load data from excel to matlab - excel

I'm trying to download data from excel to matlab. I downloaded data from yahoo finance. I want to load them in matlab however it's not successful. Right down here you have my codes and the message matlab is sending to me. Can somebody help me to improve my codes?
load SP100Duan.csv
Error using load
Number of columns on line 18 of ASCII file C:\Users\11202931\Desktop\SP100Duan.csv
must be the same as previous lines.

There are a TON of ways to get data into MATLAB. Generally speaking, mixed text/numbers gives MATLAB problems. You may want to clean up the excel file so there is no text in columns that should be numbers. Some possible methods to load data:
Use readtable function. Eg. mytable = readtable('mycsvfile.csv') All your data is put a table datatype, which I personally find convenient.
You can read data directly from an excel file using xlsread function. From your description, it sounds like your datatype is a .csv file though.
Use csvread function.
You can often copy and paste data in excel directly into a variable in Matlab. eg. (i) type: x = 0, then (ii) double click on x variable in your workspace, then (iii) copy data from excel and paste into your x variable (iv) execute something like save mydata.mat so you can later load it with load mydata.mat

This should be pretty simple . . .
xlsread('C:\Apple.xls', 'Sheet1', 'A1:G10')
Also, please see this link.
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/xlsread.html

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AnyLogic: False number format when exporting data to excel

I collect various data in time plots. If I copy the timeplot data and then paste it into Excel, the number format is often wrong. For example, I often get a date like Aug 94 instead of the actual number from the TimePlot. Unfortunately, I can't easily format this date into a number either, since the formatted number does not match the actual number from the timeplot. If I format the date in the same format as the number above and below, then I get the number 34547. However, this number does not correspond to the actual number of the TimePlot. Anyone know how I can prevent this problem?
You can only solve this on the Excel side, AnyLogic provides the raw data for you. Excel then interprets stuff. You can test it by pasting the chart raw data into a txt or csv file.
So either fix your Excel settings or paste into a csv, then into an xlsx.
Or better still: Do not manually paste at all. Instead, write your model results into the AnyLogic database and export to Excel from there: this takes away a lot of the pain for you. Check the example models to learn how to do that.
This is not AnyLogic question, rather an Excel & computer formatting problem. One way of resolving this is changing computer's date and time settings.
Another way is to save your output at txt file in AnyLogic. Replace all . with ,. Then open empty Excel, select Text format for the columns. Copy-paste from the txt file.
In Excel there are a few options
when you paste use paste as text only option
But this does not always work as Excel will still try to format the stuff for you
Use the Paste Special option and then choose text
Also possible this will not work, based on your Excel settings.
Paste using the text import wizard
(This works for me without fail)
On step 2 choose tab delimited
On step 3 choose Column format as text for every column (you need to select them in the little diagram below)
You will then see the data exactly as it came from AnyLogic. See the example below where I purposefully imported some text which has something that Excel will think is a date. You will now be able to see what in your data made Excel thing your data needed to be formatted the way it is and then you can fix it. (post a new question if you struggle with this conversion)
But as noted by other answers first prize is to write all the important data to external files. But I know that even I sometimes want to export data from a chart and review it in Excel. Option 3 works for me everytime

Pentaho Data Integration - Dump Excel into table

I'm very new to this tool and I want to do a simple operation:
Dump data from an XML to tables.
I have an Excel file that has around 10-12 sheets, and almost every sheet coresponds to a table.
With the first Excel input operation there is no problem.
The only problem is that, I don't know why but, when I try to edit (show the list of sheets, or get the list of columns) a second Excel Input the software just hangs, and when it responds just opens a warning with an error.
This is an image of the actual diagram that I'm trying to use:
This is a typical case of out of memory problem. PDI is not able to read the file and required more amount of memory to process the excel file. You need to give PDI more memory to work with your excel. Try increasing the memory of the Spoon. You can read Increase Spoon memory.
Alternatively, try to replicate your excel file with few rows of data keeping the structure of the file as it is e.g. a test file. You can either use that test file to generate the necessary sheet names and columns in excel step. Once you are done, you can point the original file and execute the job.

print to Excel file instead of pdf in SAP

I have a transaction in SAP - ZHR_TM01 (possibly built by our IT department) that prints the timesheets of our employees that are swiping a card.
I need all this data in excel format but the problem is that the only option I know is to type "PDF!" in the command bar when I'm on the print preview menu of the timesheet, so it will convert all selected timesheets to pdf format. In order to have this data in excel format i need to use acrobat converter. This option is somewhat unprofessional and working with the sheet becomes very "convert dependent" because every time I use this method the conversion is slightly different compared to previous conversions: the columns/rows are not consistent etc.
What I ask is is there a way to directly retrieve the data in some readable consistent format since it is obvious that the data exists.
If there is a analogous command like the PDF! to convert to excel format or any other?
It will help me big time.
Thanks!!
If the function code PDF! works, the printout is most likely implemented using a Smart Form. In this case, it should be possible to create an alternative download function, e. g. SALV. I'd recommend contacting the person who originally developed the transaction to get an estimate - I'm not qualified to get into the details of HR...
See if you can convert to a .csv or .txt file. Once you have it in either of those formats you should be able to import them into Excel and delimit the columns with greater accuracy.

MATLAB 2012 - Create Single list text file from matlab

I have solved an equation on matlab and have 8760 output data that needs to be put into a single list for excel. that is in Excel A1 to A8760, going down not across.
I have tried the save, fprintf however the data out put does not come out right.
I have only one variable I need and that is 's'
The file name of the resulting text file does not matter. I just need it to be saved as a single list of numbers to examine in excel.
Thank you for reading
xlswrite('yourdata.xlsx',s)
Try transposing your vector if your result is horizontal and not vertical. That is:
xlswrite('yourdata.xlsx',s.')
See documentation for more information.
You can use the matlab's function xlswrite (doc) that will write an array (s) to the first worksheet in Excel file.
Alternatively, Matlab could be used to inspect your array.

Making .RData file from Excel sheet

How can I save data from an Excel sheet to .RData file in R? I want to use one of the packages in R and to load my dataset as data(dataset) i think i have to save the data as .RData file and then load that into the package. My data currently is in an Excel spreadsheet.
my excel sheets has column names like x, y , time.lag.
I have saved it as .csv
then i use:
x=read.csv('filepath', header=T,)
then i say
data(x)
and it shows dataset 'x' not found
There are also several packages that allow directly reading from XLS and XLSX files. We've even had a question on that topic here and here for example. However you decide to read in the data, saving into an RData can be handled with save, save.image, saveRDS and probably some others I'm not thinking about.
save your Excel data as a .csv file and import it using read.csv() or read.table().
Help on each will explain the options.
For example, you have a file called myFile.xls, save it as myFile.csv.
library(BBMM)
# load an example dataset from BBMM
data(locations)
# from the BBMM help file
BBMM <- brownian.bridge(x=locations$x, y=locations$y, time.lag=locations$time.lag[-1], location.error=20, cell.size=50)
bbmm.summary(BBMM)
# output of summary(BBMM)
Brownian motion variance : 3003.392
Size of grid : 138552 cells
Grid cell size : 50
# subsitute locations for myData for your dataset that you have read form a myFile.csv file
myData <- read.csv(file='myFile.csv', header=TRUE)
head(myData) # will show the first 5 entries in you imported data
# use whatever you need from the BBMM package now ....
Check RODBC package. You can find an example in R Data Import/Export. You can query data from excel sheet as if from a database table.
The benefit of reading Excel sheet with RODBC is that you get dates (if you work with any) in a proper format. With intermediate CSV, you'd need to specify a column type, unless you want it to be a factor or string. Also you can query only a portion of your data if you need so thus making subset() unnecessary.

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