Questions tagged [import]
Questions about getting data, files, images etc. from various formats into a form that can be read, tranformed and manipulated by Mathematica
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How to import files from a directory above the notebook directory?
Consider some directory
.../a/
where ... may be some arbitrary path.
It has two subdirectories:
/a/b/
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/a/c/
In the subdirectory /a/c/, a Mathematica notebook is located, while in the subdirectory /...
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Unable to use KnotTheory
I've installed the KnotTheory package, following the instructions here. But when I try to use it I get this error:
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How to use Import[] to grab text displayed on a Twitter page for a non-existent username?
Let's say http://www.foo.bar/?domain=wibble returns a search page on the word "wibble" provided by an engine with the frontdoor address ...
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How to import and render this OBJ file with correct texture?
Here's the output of a 3D scan of a bike, I need to render it in color with the texture file provided. Here are the files:
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How to extract numbers from a html file?
Consider an .html file. Among the code, it contains there are strings
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How to separate a list of indices and data points
If I copy and paste a list of data points from the OEIS the indices come with the data points. Mathematica seems to view this as a product 0 times 0 times 1 times 0 times 2 times ... times 51. I ...
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Importing multiple files with filename conditions
I have multiple pictures I would like to import all at once. The filenames range from "000001.tif" to "000200.tif." I am having a hard time importing multiple images after looking ...
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Error Meshing with ToElementMesh (ToElementMesh: Cannot set region holes.) for certain objects
I have had a problem properly meshing certain .obj files, where others are meshed successfully.
Here is an example of a successfully meshed .obj:
Whereas, using the code at the bottom which includes ...
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Meshing Error on Imported obj file
I am trying to import a .obj file to be used in a static electric field simulation. I am able to successfully run the simulation with certain other aperture geometries (see here: < https://www....
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Multiple columns from a single column of data file
Suppose I have a data file containing one column of 1000 rows having x, y, z and ϕ values. I need to separate them into four distinct columns by selecting every alternative value.
For example, if I ...
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How to speed up loading 20k lines tsv-file with complex numbers?
I have a long (20k lines) file which looks like this:
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How to import the given file?
Consider a file with the following block structure:
Event XX Muon YY:
data
End of event
Event XX' Muon YY':
data'
End of Event
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Can Mathematica read planar graphs with pc format?
We can download files about some special planar graphs at the following website, but their files are suffixed with pc.
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/data/planegraphs.html
I don't know how to ...
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Accessing geometry in Shape files (SHP)
Shape files can readily be imported and converted to a Dataset. For large shape files, this may unnecessarily consume a large amount of memory, particularly when the dataset is only used to retrieve ...
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Merge plots and imported images
I am trying to plot some things using Mathematica. I haven't used Mathematica for plotting before
, so apologies if my question is basic.
I have the following image, which is my target image:
I also ...
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Importing IDL sav file into Mathematica
I have a rather big (around 400 MB) file written by the IDL (Interactive Data Language) software into its binary format ".SAV" which is a proprietary format, not the spss format expected by ...
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ListLinePlot: Options expected (instead of ImportCSVToDataset
I have the following code
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How to import CSV file with mixed data, including string Mathematica expressions and numbers
I am importing a CSV file that looks like this (Extract of data as viewed in Notepad):
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Extremely slow import of mx files with Molecule objects [closed]
Version: 13.0.1 on Linux
Hello,
I recently found a collection of 39,361 SMILES strings that I converted to Molecule format with Mathematica. I then exported the resulting list of Molecule objects into ...
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How do I set permission for Mathematica to import other files on my machine?
Sorry that this is a very stupid question, but when I first loaded the new version of Mathematica (13.0.1.0) it asked me to "Allow Mathematica to open files" and I accidentally clicked "...
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I need to bulk convert a number of PDFs in a folder to plaintext
I have 159 PDF in a folder with nothing else in it. I need them all converted to raw text. I found the documentation for doing them one at a time, which worked. To do them in bulk I tried this
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File Path name copy&paste- single/double backslash problem
Shift+RightClick a file on windows explorer and select 'copy as path', then ctrl+v paste to mathematica notebook, then apply FileExistsQ :
ex1)
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How to import a file with 3 columns of numerical data and visualize it with ListPointPlot3D? [closed]
The file is plain ascii. e.g. 100 rows, each row like "1.23 2.34 3.45".
I'm a complete novice with Mathematica, I assume this will be trivial.
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RunProcess : Save directly to Mathematica Variable
I can convert mysource.jpg to myresult.jpg using an external program myprog.exe, and set a ...
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Import high-resolution images from a PDF?
I have a pdf file that I want to resize after importing.
However, ImageResize doesn't seem to take into account the high-resolution of the initial image, and resizing makes it very pixelated. I can ...
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How to convert PQR Entity to Mathematica Molecule format
I am using the Pitt Quantum Repository and am trying to convert the format from Entity to Molecule, so that I can get the MoleculeValue Properties of the PQR chemicals in addition to the EntityValue ...
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Using ReadList to read file with mixed size columns
I have a file which contains 6 columns but each column has a different number of entires.
The way that this file is imported into mathematica is that the 'missing' entries for each row are simply ...
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Context problems with ParallelTable and Import/Export
I work with notebooks with contexts unique to each notebook and I want to compute a list of functions $f(z,w)$ via ParallelTable and save them to files in NotebookA ...
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How to compute the electronic energy reported by Gaussian from the AlphaOrbitalEnergies
I followed the instructions on https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/format/FCHK.html to analyze the fchk file.
Ran an energy calculation on Gaussian , converted the results to .fchk files. The ....
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How to make import and export (or equivalent) work with unique notebook contexts
I currently have my notebook's default context set to "Unique to this notebook", which is useful for when I'm doing multiple projects.
However, whenever I try to use e.g ...
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How to create a Dataset from Nested JSON Data?
I'm importing data from Swarm into Mathematica, and I'm trying to create a dataset and having issues because the values are at different levels:
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How can I resolve an unexpected character error when trying to import selected data from a large JSON file?
I'm downloading this datafile from kaggle.
I want to get all the IDs.
Normally for a JSON file I'd write
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Create a new variable every time I import a list file
I want to import a list and put it in a variable. The number of lists grows as the days go by, so I do not know their final number.
to import the first file I use this code:
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Read a txt file using space delimiter
I have a txt file "data.txt". This contain data like
a 1
b 2
c 3
I want to import this file into two list like $\{a,b,c\}$ and $\{1,2,3\}$.I have ...
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The principle of converting image with bit 8 into image with bit 16 automatically in Mathematica
I import a collagen image that is 8-bit depth but when I checked image properties in Mathematica, it shows that it is 16 bit. My code is shown below. I found that Mathematica always imports image as ...
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Gaussian 16 fchk and log file import in mathematica
I am working with Gaussian log files and fchk files imported into Mathematica and I noticed a few things.
The ExampleData in documentation for these files use Gaussian 03 output files, while the ...
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Use ReadList with a condition for values of a certain column to handle huge (>1 GB) text files
Hello dear Mathematica community,
I would like to import a very large data set as efficiently as possible. The dataset consists of four columns and 115 million rows. For the display in Mathematica, ...
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Erratic behavior retrieving large data (several tens of gigabytes) that has been serialized by Mathematica
Hardware: PC with 256GB RAM
OS: Windows 10
Mathematica: Version 13.0.1
One of my projects has led to the creation of a SparseArray whose ByteCount is ~ 35GB in RAM. At the time of creation the ...
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Character encoding of the output from URLExecute
Bug persisting through 13.1.0 [CASE:4932406]
I'm using URLExecute to fetch some data from the arXiv preprint server
but it seems that the encoding of the text I ...
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How to select the set of points that are real from the a txt file?
I have the following txt file. Each line (except for the first line 100 and blank line) in the txt file is a point with its real and imaginary parts. For example, the points presented in the file are
$...
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How to read the txt as points in mathematica
I have the following txt file and want to import it as 18 points in Mathematica, so that I can draw the points on a complex plane. Each line (except for the first line ...
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Invalid character when importing XML
I am having trouble importing XML data taken from Open Street Map.
This seems to be due to a problematic Asian character. Though the full file is quite large, here is an simplified example of the XML ...
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Reading *ptw files into Mathematica
I have a SWIR camera that outputs raw image files in *ptw format. I need to read them into Mathematica for image analysis. I know that such files can be read into Matlab and C++, so there must be a ...
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Plotting data and fitting to a function
I have three sets of data. I would like to plot them in the same graph. Then plot the following fittings to the data. Any help is appreciated!
f(v) = (v^2)*exp(-mv^2/2 kb T)
f(v) = (v^3)*exp(-mv^2/2 ...
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Building a distance matrix
I came across an interesting exercise that I would like to try to solve with Mathematica to improve my skills. In data is provided to build a distance matrix. The data looks like this, starting from <...
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Change a value within a list from a string to number
I have a table with 10 columns. The last column contains a string; e.g.,
"center", "passageway 1", up to "passageway 8".
I want to change the last column so that the ...
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Getting stock quotes from Yahoo Finance API in Mathematica
I have obtained a Yahoo Finance API key and would like to try it out by making a simple request from within Mathematica. Their tutorial page has some nice little example code snippets in various ...
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Failing to import a TGF file of a graph with no edges (V12.x and V13.0)
Bug persisting through 13.0
Version: 12.x and 13.0
I am having an issue with importing a graph stored in the Trivial Graph Format (TGF) when the graph has no edges. Consider the following:
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Why in Mathematica 13 do imported PDFs have lower image quality?
I'm finding images imported into Mathematica 13 notebooks are noticeably pixelated. (Oddly, pasting an image into a notebook cell does not have this problem.) Has the default changed for some import ...
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