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I have a list of points:

points={{3, 0}, {3, 9}, {4, 2}, {5, 5}, {6, 9}, {6, 6}, {6, 1}, {7, 7}, {8,0}, {8, 10}};

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And as you can see on the plot, there are some values of x that appear more than once.

I want to accumulate the ones that are at the same value of x, so the final result should look like this:

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I tried using

points[[All,1]]//Split

To get

{{3, 3}, {4}, {5}, {6, 6, 6}, {7}, {8, 8}}

But I don't know where to go after that, furthermore, I'm fairly sure this is not the right way to approach this problem.

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Works just fine for a few points:

acc = points //. {a___, {x_, y1_}, {x_, y2_}, 
    b___} :> {a, {x, y1 + y2}, b}

{{3, 9}, {4, 2}, {5, 5}, {6, 16}, {7, 7}, {8, 10}}

More efficient:

acc = Plus @@ #/{Length[#], 1} & /@ GatherBy[points, First]

{{3, 9}, {4, 2}, {5, 5}, {6, 16}, {7, 7}, {8, 10}}

ListLinePlot[acc]

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f[{a_, b_}] := {First@a, Tr@b}
f /@ Transpose /@ GatherBy[points, First]

Edit Probably much faster:

s[points_] := Module[{p = points, f},
  f[_] = 0;
  Scan[f@#[[1]] += #[[2]] &, p];
  f
  ]
k = s[points];
ListLinePlot[{#, k@#} & /@ points[[All, 1]]]

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  • $\begingroup$ @Kuba done :),thanks $\endgroup$ – Dr. belisarius Mar 9 '14 at 21:18
  • $\begingroup$ @Kuba I ommited the part that's practically the same as your answer there :) $\endgroup$ – Dr. belisarius Mar 9 '14 at 21:23
  • $\begingroup$ I've seen :) +1ed there :) $\endgroup$ – Kuba♦ Mar 9 '14 at 21:25

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