The CSV tag concerns text-based files containing tabular material using commas as a separator.
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Why is this CSV form letter code incompatible with the table of contents in ConTeXt?
Using the code in the answer to How to create form letters from spreadsheet data in ConTeXt?, I am building a document from data in a CSV file. I found that some part of the code is incompatible with ...
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How can I plot bigger amounts of data?
I am currently playing around with hailstone sequences (collatz numbers).
I would like to create a plot like this (from Wikipedia):
But I don't know how this kind of plot is called (it's neither a ...
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How do I create a visually pleasing tree hierarchy from a difficult to read CSV File (MySQL Export)?
Ok here is the deal: I am working on an endangered language project. The data is contained in a MySQL database. I can run a query to produce a hierarchy, but the hierarchy is difficult for humans to ...
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PGFPlots error “Dimension too large” when plotting .csv data
I did search on here for a solution and I did read the manual, but i couldn't find an answer (or at least one that I understood).
I am plotting some data in a .csv file and for some reason when the x ...
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read strings from csv file for usage as figure meta data
I got the following problem, I use pgfplots(table) to generate plots and tables in my latex document from generated data. I would like to read additional information from a metadata file. The reason ...
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verbatim within… a package delivers a string from a file and that string needs to be printed without interpretation
The csvtools package warns in its documentation from interpretable inputs but offers no solution as far as I can see.
This Code generates a table
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csvtools}
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How to get the last element of a specific column from a CSV file?
I have CSV files of different lengths. For example
a,b,c,d,e
0,0, 5, 5, 1
0,5, 5, 11, 2
0,11, 5, 16, 1
5,0, 10, 6, 1
5,6, 10, 11, 2
I want to get the value of the last element of the c and d ...
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How to plot data from a CSV file using tikz and csvsimple?
Here is a minimal example :
\begin{filecontents*}{data.csv}
a,b,c,d
1,4,5,1
2,3,1,5
3,5,6,1
4,1,4,9
5,3,4,7
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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How to import data from a CSV file in a figure caption using csvsimple?
I have made a pretty report that gets all the data from CSV files data.csv like this :
Images,Infos,Bayer,BilineaireA,BilineaireB,TeinteA,TeinteB,ContourA,ContourB,Forme
img1(illusion),Temps (en ...
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Automatically formatting a table from a file with a list of words
I have a list of ~1000 words in a text file. The words are listed in a text file "my_words.txt" with no breaklines as follows:
word1, word2, word3, etc.
I would like to display these words in a ...
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Are there tools for importing from CSV to BibTeX?
I'm seeking a way to get my books database, stored on Goodreads, into BibTeX form. As near as I can tell, Goodreads provides no support for this directly, but does provide for CSV export (on the ...
