Creating Table From Excel Data

GAS = greenhousegasinventorydatadata(greenhousegasinventorydatadata.category == 'Methane')

Ireland = GAS(GAS.country_or_area == 'Ireland', 2:3)

Sweden =

Switzerland =

Poland =

subplot(2,2,1)

plot(Ireland.year,Ireland.value)

title ('Ireland')

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This is some sample code for loading excel data using logical indexing into a table then plotting it. However, I am just confused what the periods stand for

in certain cases like Ireland.year and GAS.country_or_area. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Rik]

A dot can mean two things:

1. accessing a field of a struct or a variable in a table
2. calling a method in a class, e.g. in the syntax ax.XTicks=1:10

In your case it looks like the first.

Also note that you should use == for char arrays, as that is an element-wise operation. Use strcmp instead.

Answer 2

[Peter Perkins]

It almost looks like you have table namednamed "greenhousegasinventorydatadata", and one of the variables in that table is called "category", and it's a categorical variable, one of whose categories is named "Methane", and you getting the subset of Methane rows into a smaller table named GAS, and another variable in "greenhousegasinventorydatadata" carried over to GAS is named "country_or_area", and it's categorical, one of whose categories is names "Ireland", and you are getting the subset of Ireland rows for two of the variables.

I say "almost", because your first line of code is a self-explanatory error if greenhousegasinventorydatadata is indeed a table.

Just guessing.