oo calc import txt 2 calc: ? .ini filtering data window

[andrewPL]

Problems In
OpenOffice CALC:

QUESTION 1
How to solve problem and have x-axis scale formated from 11:00:00 to 12:00:00, grid every 10 min and data displayed (data every 0.5 second)
In
OpenOffice CALC:
Chart XY PLOT

Data file example (long X column data from 1 hour, every 0.5 s, I.e.= 2*60min*60sec)
Y data some data points starting from 11:00:18,0 ... To 11:02:09,5
, next from 11:52:18,0 ... To 11:56:09,5
Like in this exaple:

X: Y:

11:00:00,0
11:00:00,5
11:00:01,0
11:00:01,5 20
11:00:02,0 20
11:00:02,5 20
11:00:03,0
11:00:03,5
....


11:59:54,5
11:59:55,0
11:59:55,5
11:59:56,0
11:59:56,5 30
11:59:57,0 30
11:59:57,5 30
11:59:58,0
11:59:58,5
11:59:59,0
11:59:59,5

Insert Chart
XY plot, time on X axis, Y on Y,
Next
Double click on X axis
Scale :
X Axis
Minimum: 11:00:00
Maximum: 12:00:00
Major intervals: 0,0069444444444
(=1/24/6 I.e. Every 10 min)



HOW TO HAVE “XY plot” with time on x-scale for time from 11:00 to 12:00 with grid every 10 min ??? And data displayed

Time series chart -I want scale every 10 min starting from 11_00 AM to 12_00 PM- not working

QUESTION 2
How to have vertical position of Data labels (many long strings) on data plot XY (there is no options in label position)
(Data series..Data labels.. X Show label text )

And HOW TO have this text on chart vertical

QUESTION 3
How to make default settings of textimport filter for data from txt. into to the OO calc
i.e. he should be teached, that he must open import dialog window with selected dialog options : separator : comma, start import from 25'th row, ...
in wchich file *.ini could I insert this startup ppreffered parameters?
:wink:
By,
AndrewTeacher
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Andrew teacher PL

[uros]

Hi Andrew!

To question 3 - it can be done by macro.
I use spreadsheet where name, URL and filter options for various txt files are stored. From here listbox is populated and I can pick one of them. Then macro opens it.
URLs and filter options can be easily get from once "by hand" opened file with macro from Villeroy http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=142868#142868.

If you are interested just say... A little experience about macros won't hurt.

Uros

[jrkrideau]

Hi Andrew,

I had a quick look at the problem and I guess that you, maybe, could do it but I think you need a dedicated graphing program. Spreadsheet graphs are really not adequate for this type of plotting particularly if you need something of presentation quality.

I'd suggest having a look at something like:
R http://www.r-project.org/
or
gnuplot http://www.gnuplot.info/

There's a bit of a learning curve involved but you will have much better control of the options that you need. Both R and gnuplot also have good help lists or fora.

edit
Forgot to mention that both of the programs mentioned above will handle the data import problem (or may not even notice that there is a problem) .
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Kingston ON Canada
Currently using Windows 7 & OOo 3.4.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 & LibreOffice 3.5.2.2