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Will
Jun 26, 2014, 9:04:09 AM6/26/14
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I'm pretty new to matlab so hopefully there is a reasonably simple solution to this. I wrote a script to analyze some data that I have collected. The data comes from eChem Analyzer so it is a .dta file. Currently I need to open that in an excel spreadsheet and save it as a .xlsx. There are many files that I need to analyze so this is impractical. Ultimately I would like to make a loop that reads each file in a specified folder.
My first goal though is to be able to open the .dta files directly in matlab. Can anyone help?
Thanks
My first goal though is to be able to open the .dta files directly in matlab. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Barry Williams
Jun 26, 2014, 3:01:11 PM6/26/14
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"Will " <owil...@gmail.com> wrote in message <loh5o9$j0s$1...@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
.dta files are ASCII data only, no binary. And the documentation says they can easily be read by Excel or Origin. It shouldn't be too difficult to parse them in Matlab. Have you tried using any of the import tools in ML?
Barry
> I'm pretty new to matlab so hopefully there is a reasonably simple solution to this. I wrote a script to analyze some data that I have collected. The data comes from eChem Analyzer so it is a .dta file. Currently I need to open that in an excel spreadsheet and save it as a .xlsx. There are many files that I need to analyze so this is impractical. Ultimately I would like to make a loop that reads each file in a specified folder.
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> My first goal though is to be able to open the .dta files directly in matlab. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
According to the manufacturer's website, http://www.gamry.com/assets/Support-Downloads/Quick-Start-Guides/EchemAnalystSoftwareManual.pdf,
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> My first goal though is to be able to open the .dta files directly in matlab. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
.dta files are ASCII data only, no binary. And the documentation says they can easily be read by Excel or Origin. It shouldn't be too difficult to parse them in Matlab. Have you tried using any of the import tools in ML?
Barry
Will
Jul 1, 2014, 9:15:12 AM7/1/14
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"Barry Williams" <barry.r.wil...@saic.com> wrote in message <lohqln$k9h$1...@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
Yes I have tried playing around with all the functions I could find and haven't managed to make it work yet. Often this error message comes up. "Error: Unexpected MATLAB expression."
Will
Jul 1, 2014, 2:40:11 PM7/1/14
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hey im trying to upload .dta files to matlab and having a lot of troubles. there does not seem to be an easy way to do it. A project on this topic was completed a few years ago on github. here is the link with all the scripts/info.
https://github.com/rbrown46/DTA2MAT
ive been trying to use this to make it work but running into more problems than i can solve. can anyone get this to work?
https://github.com/rbrown46/DTA2MAT
ive been trying to use this to make it work but running into more problems than i can solve. can anyone get this to work?
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