Origin Version (Select Help-->About Origin): 8.0 Operating System:Win 2000
I have a data set broken up by year, from 1901 to 2008 down one X column and then monthly data for each year as each column next to that. I want to plot one contiguous line of all the data across time, but as set up, Origin wants to plot 12 individual lines across time so there is no way to have one single line and then do other things like rolling averages. Does anyone know of a way to convert data sets like this in Origin to one single data stream?
Assuming your years are in column 1 and your months are numbers in column 2, and we arbitrarily decide on the first of the month, then a script like this will work:
wks.col=3; wks.insert(Date); wks.col3.format=4; get col(1) -e end; loop(ii,1,end) { %L = wcol(1)[ii]$; %M = wcol(2)[ii]$; val = date(%M/01/%L); col(Date)[ii]=val; }
If your month column has text like 'Jan' or 'January', make sure your column format is set to Month and Display type matches.
Can Origin do this?
Posted - 06/03/2008 : 5:59:43 PM
