Questions tagged [automation]
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Quantum Dot Absorbance Data Peakfinding
I work in a lab making quantum dots, and was recently tasked with finding a way to extract some figures of merit from old data in an automated way. In particular, I'm looking to extract the peak ...
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Drawing finite-state automata without using VertexRenderingFunction
In the tutorial entitled "Hierarchical Drawing of Directed Graphs" in Mathematica 12, there is an example of how to draw a graph with several properties I want, but it uses an option called ...
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What could cause an “Uncaught Throw[$Failed,CURLLink`Utilities`Exception] returned to top level.” error message?
I am running a program in Mathematica that uses web browser automation, and is also connected to my email account. The program runs fine for a while, but after a few hours, I end up getting the ...
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Automatic indentation of text and equations depending on Style
I have a rule when writing text and equations. Starting from the Section environment, each text/equation that sits inside Section...
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Define Macros to automatically change keyboard input
When using Solve for example, I find myself having to use it in conjunction with other types of functions, like Flatten or ...
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Is there a way to automate this procedure?
I have some code which numerically solves a differential equation for a given value of the parameter $M0$ and for some initial conditions. The initial conditions will remain fixed throughout the ...
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How can I get Manipulate[] graphics to print when batch printing notebooks?
I want to print Manipulate[] graphics while batch printing several notebooks. Here's the long version:
I have several Manipulate[] graphics cells in my notebooks. The only way I know of to get the ...
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NotebookEvaluate within cell with CellContext->Notebook
I've encountered the following issue with NotebookEvaluate (note the grouping into 3 distinct cells):
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Automatic variable naming
I am trying to construct a complicated code in which I need to name a lot of variables and their definitions.
For Example:
The problem is as follow:
Once I insert new variable in between two, I ...
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Feeding Executable Arguments into Run - or using RunProcess without the kernel CPU usage
I am trying to automate the submission of many executables with variable parameter values via Mathematica on Windows 10 x64.
Running the executable from Mathematica works great for executables that ...
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Using WebUnit with ParallelTable
Is it possible to use OpenWebPage from WebUnit in ParallelTable? For example such as in:
<...
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Issue with NotebookPrint to export multiple notebooks to PDF in Mathematica 11.1
I have a number of lecture notebooks that I publish to Dropbox in PDF format. It's been working great for years, but something seems to have gone wrong in the latest version of Mathematica. My code ...
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How to automatically do a computation, Quit[], restart and do a new computation
Related questions have been asked before (eg Where does a package have to be loaded?, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6152023/quit-kernel-in-mathematica-by-a-command-not-using-evaluation-menu, ...
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How can I terminate a MathKernel that is running an external program after a timeout?
I'm using ParrallelDo to parallel run another program (windows executable) in 8 subkernels. Sometimes a SubKernel freezes. What I see in the task-manager is that ...
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How to stop autosaving? [closed]
Is there a notebook autosave frequency configuration?
I made my MMA file to autosave, it was nice for a little bit. However, now it automatically saves every 10 seconds, and try to save every time I ...
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Evaluate .nb automatically and sequentially using external file as input
I am interested in implemented the following workflow. I have a Mathematica script that receives an input (manually), executes the algorithm based on that input, and stores output into a CSV file. ...
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How to make a parallel auto-generated .wl package from a .nb notebook
As we know, owing to the set of SetOptions[InputNotebook[], AutoGeneratedPackage -> Automatic], a .m file will be generated automatically by the Mathematica ...
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Restarting Mathematica automatically
I run a large computation in a loop. At each cycle of the loop
I produce large arrays that I save on a disk. At each cycle I would like to Quit Mathematica and ...
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Automate Windows From Mathematica
Is there a feasible way to automate Windows from Mathematica?
I'm thinking maybe with the .NETLink?
If not maybe just mouse movements or keyborad shortcuts ?
This might be a good start https://msdn....
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How to omit the authentification dialog during URLRead?
When I use URLRead
Mathematica will popup a window like:
Actually I have given the parameters Password and ...
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how to plot the dispersion curve in first brillouin zone?
Those who know some solid state physics should know what the first brillouin zone is. How do I plot the dispersion relation in the 1st brillouin zone so that the curves can 'fold back'?
For instance ...
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Web Browsing Automation: how to expand all comments under a blog post?
I wish to expand all the comments under a LiveJournal post for the purposes of saving the complete thread of comments. According to LiveJournal's FAQ when a post gets more than 50 comments they are ...
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How to modify a file opened by NotebookOpen [closed]
I need to run a file several times, each time with a different value for a certain variable. I use the following script to automate the process, but I have no idea how to make changes in the file ...
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UseFrontEnd is not working the same in version 10.4
I'm using batch files to run Mathematica notebooks (with saved output) but in version 10.4 the functionality has changed. Any ideas how to get it working?
I use a batch file to run a .m script which ...
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Automatic process to replace missing values, coming from a second matrix
I have a large starting matrix with missing values in different columns. I want to replace this missing data as follow.
First I have to check the group (last column in starting matrix) and go to a ...
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Place Holder or Suppressing Re-ordering
Using the for loop how can I print:
file0.jpg
file1.jpg
file2.jpg
file3.jpg
file4.jpg
file5.jpg
file6.jpg
file7.jpg
file8.jpg
file9.jpg
The closest code I came ...
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How to obtain differential consequences of linear transport equation automatically?
Motivation
Here I've asked how to derive coefficients of numerical approximation of the linear transport equation
$$
u_t + u_x = 0,
\tag{1}
$$
on a fixed 3-point stencil automatically and here I've ...
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How to derive finite-difference scheme automatically on a quite general stencil
Info
This question is a generalization of the following one Derivation of numerical scheme for linear transport equation on a variable stencil.
Statement of a problem
Linear scalar hyperbolic (...
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Creating authomatically inequalities/equations from a list of polynomials
I am trying to learn how to make automatically from a list of polynomials (or an arbitrary collection of algebraic expression) a list of inequalities/equalities (those will later serve as constraints ...
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Is there a way to profile Mathematica code in batch mode?
I'd like to profile some Mathematica code to figure out why it's running slowly. Since the code takes about a day to run, I can't use the Wolfram Workbench GUI. Is there a way to run Wolfram Workbench ...
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Auto Execute Notebook on Open [duplicate]
How might I automatically execute a notebook script on open?
For example I would like to a notebook to automatically execute it's cells.
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How to automate repetitive evaluation of a notebook from a parent notebook [duplicate]
I've got a code that I want to automate, but I'm not sure how. I have a Mathematica notebook that I need to run many times over, each time changing one variable and repeating. My idea was to set up ...
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Graph Coloring based on neighboring vertices? Cellular Automata
I would like to apply a majority rule cellular automata to graphs. Specifically, I would like to take a graph as input, and then define two functions, InitialColoring[graph] and MajorityRule[graph]. ...
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How to get a audio file's duration time in Mathematica?
I have a *.avi file and if I want to know the file's duration time:
I can use this code to get the result:
Import["test.avi", "Duration"]
or the code to get the ...
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Automatically detect largest interval over which NDSolve can find a solution
Question: Consider the following numerical resolution:
NDSolve[eqn, {x1[t], x2[t], y[t]}, {t, tmin, tmax}
where eqn, ...
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Naming Excel Sheets automatically
After performing some calculations with excel sheets I end with a tridimensional matrix a to be export to a .xlsx format and a vector q that contains the name of all the sheets (so $Length[q] = Length[...
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Wolfram language from batch or py
I would like to automate the commands in this website into a batch file, so when the batch file it runs these commands in sequence. http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/157461
Do any of you have ...
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Automatically dealing with “disable dynamic updating”
I'm programmatically creating notebooks containing dynamic content. When a new notebook is being created, a window pops up:
I then manually click on "Continue" and it will create the notebook. The ...
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Automatic e-mail/text message when a calculation has finished?
Sometimes Mathematica takes quite a while to finish calculations and it would be convenient to be able to move away from the computer while it is working. I was wondering if there is any "clever" hack ...
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Applying Some Kind of Timing Function to AutoRunSequence [duplicate]
Ok, so I'm exporting a video to MOV format that is coming from a manipulate function (I'm demonstrating CLT to a class that doesn't have calculus as a pre-req, if anyone is curious). Anyhow, I'm ...
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KeyPress function in Java's Robot class, how to state parameter?
I am trying to use Java's Robot class to type. This is what I have done so far.
Needs["JLink`"];
InstallJava[];
robot = JavaNew["java.awt.Robot"]
The mouseMove ...
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Map several functions in one routine
I have several functions, let's assume they are:
func1[x_]=x;
func2[x_]=3*x-5;
func3[x_]=0.1*x^2;
and a lot more like these.
For each and every one of these I ...
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Use of the option EvaluationElements
When trying to answer this question, I ran into the following problem.
In the help documentation of EvaluationElements, it is claimed that we can use EvaluateNotebook to evaluate only cells that have ...
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Is it possible to create Evaluatable cell which will be automatically overwritten?
Am trying to generate an Evaluatable cell which itself is an output cell which will be overwritten when the original Input cell ...
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Automatically shrink stretched images back to their original dimensions
We all sometimes find images on the web that are carelessly stretched to larger dimensions than original, which results in nothing but a reduction of the detail / dimensions ratio.
See Original vs ...
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Welcome screen (V9): selecting notebook from Open Recent … results in initialization cells not evaluating
The following represents an abbreviated example of more complicated code, but it replicates a problem the more complicated code encounters.
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