Re: Newbie needs help


"Roy " <huffr004@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am pulling in date from the link below. I need to do some simple
averages. Things like averaging the temperature at 12:30pm during the
month of August. Another thing I am trying to look for is the average
difference in high and low temperatures (diurnal tempertaure) daily for a
specific month and daily for a specific day. After that, It would be an
extra bonus to create some graphs, charts, & graphics illustrating some of
the data.

http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/archive/wx/wekiu/mk1.2007.txt

At a quick glance, this looks like tab-delimited data -- DLMREAD or the
Import Wizard should probably be able to handle importing it.

However, I'm going to suggest you start off by reading through the Getting
Started guide in the documentation. Type "doc" without the quotes at the
prompt in the Command Window, then expand the MATLAB item on the tree and
select Getting Started and walk through that entire section. Yes, I know
you want to get working on your project. Yes, I know you probably have
limited time. But in my opinion, you will be able to make much more
efficient use of MATLAB and avoid a lot of frustration if you gain at least
some basic familiarity with MATLAB before you jump right into the deep end
of the MATLAB programming pool.

The Getting Started section will teach you how to work with data and
functions, and will include links to some of the other sections of the
documentation that deal with tasks you'll need to perform to complete your
project (like the Data Import and Export section of the Programming
Fundamentals chapter in the documentation and the Data Processing section of
the Data Analysis chapter.)

Once you've gotten started in the "shallow end" of the MATLAB programming
pool by going through the Getting Started guide, I think you'll find it
easier to keep yourself afloat when you jump into the deep end and start
crunching data for your project.

--
Steve Lord
slord@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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