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Can Mathematica communicate with Keysight instruments?
I am building an electronics lab with Keysight digital multimeters, power supplies, oscilloscopes, electrometers, etc. Is it possible for Mathematica to send commands from my MacBook Pro to these ...
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How to automatically name a Wolfram Notebook after the first title line of code if present?
I have a goal of somehow using Wolfram Mathematica's Notebook object functionality to program an initialization cell that will automatically save and name a new file after a title line of code ...
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How to select from a dropdown list in WebExecute?
After locating the dropdown using the XPath as follows:
element=First@WebExecute["LocateElements"->"XPath"->"..."];
How do I ...
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How to make a for loop to automatically make a series of m differential equations?
I'm trying to construct a series of differential equations that defines the behavior of m mutually interacting species according to the Lotka-Volterra equations. I figure there must be some clever ...
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Automating the re-writing of an expression
I have a function of two variables $f(x,y)$ that I know I can be expressed in the form of a single variable $z=x/y$. Is there a way to write the function in terms of $z$ easily/in an automised fashion ...
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How to use 'Join' and '& /@' : combining all .csv files in a directory into a single .csv file automatically
I would like to import all .csv files in a directory and combine them into a single file using Join. I can do this manually but when I try to automate it using <...
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concept of tangent and residual in AceFem and automation
here trying to solve the pde: ut + ux = 0 in acefem. I have two questions regarding tangent and residual.
Tangent shows the s$$ and residual shows ...
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Is it possible to automate definitions given with TagSetDelayed?
I am using the following two lines of code relatively frequently
f/:Plus[f[x_], f[y_], z___]:=f[x+y]+z
f/:Times[c_, f[x_]]:=f[c x]
and I was wondering if it is ...
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Using solved constants without manually setting them as variables
I'm really new to Mathematica and there's this assignment I can easily solve by just manually copy-pasting everything and sticking to it as I am doing right now but I'd like to start going more in-...
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Creating an Array with Subscripts and Superscripts
I would like to figure out how to construct an array using subscripts and superscripts based on the following info:
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Applying same function over a list of variables
I currently have a list of variables in a column in excel, I would like to perform some analysis for each of those variables.
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Loop function for a list of codes
I have a list of codes that start with importing column D of an excel sheet which has a hyperlink. Then, the code moves onto importing the text version of the hyperlink and further proceeds with ...
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Load multiple csv files and do iterative calculation for each file
I am trying to read multiple csv files and want to plot them all together,
Lets say I have 3 files, file1 , file2 and file3
I want to average 3 files, and plot them all together,
So far I have set ...
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How to use module to assign functions to a set of imported text files?
I have a lot of text files in my folder (in this example I'm using only 8). I am trying to import all of them and then do calculation on each individual file; I want to use the same notebook without ...
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Automate Poisson Football Scores Prediction
I would like to automate a simple poisson football scores predictions process.
I started by importing and cleaning home and away England League team tables data to work on it with Poisson ...
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Running a notebook which imports and exports files repeatedly
I am trying to automate the process of running a Mathematica notebook that takes as an input a .txt file and exports another .txt file. This notebook was not written by me, and I don't fully ...
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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.