Re: [vox-tech] creating a lookup table in awk

2007-05-03 Thread Leo Rainer
Dylan, awk does simulate multi-dimensional arrays (using the form col[dl,pit,sensor]) so you could use: col[1,1,1] = 4 col[1,1,2] = 5 ... col[1,2,1] = 8 ... You could then read the data using: while(getline <"dataloggerfile_d" > 0) { for(p = 1; p <= numpits; p++) for(s = 1; s <= numse

Re: [vox-tech] creating a lookup table in awk

2007-05-03 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Hi Issac, Actually I regularly use R + Postgresql for all of my research, thanks though. I am helping a colleague -- and we looking for a quick alternative to python. thanks, dylan On Thursday 03 May 2007 13:28, Issac Trotts wrote: > If you want to do data analysis and plotting then your best

Re: [vox-tech] creating a lookup table in awk

2007-05-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Issac Trotts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you want to do data analysis and plotting then your best bet would > probably be GNU R: www.r-project.org. About which, an introductory article was published just two days ago: http://linuxgazette.net/138/dellomodarme.html -- Cheers,If

Re: [vox-tech] creating a lookup table in awk

2007-05-03 Thread Issac Trotts
If you want to do data analysis and plotting then your best bet would probably be GNU R: www.r-project.org. It has a steeper learning curve than Python, but it's really dedicated to doing stats. Issac On 5/3/07, Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I have a rather interes

[vox-tech] creating a lookup table in awk

2007-05-03 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Hi everyone, I have a rather interesting problem, that i would like to solve with awk or bash scripting - but if all else fails then I will switch to python. here is the idea: i have a set of files, each with 30 columns - coming from a set of 10 data loggers. each file represents the output fr