Average data from excel

Hello! I have a lot of xls files. In the first column is the depth, in the second the speed of sound. I have a script to display them on a graph. How can I write a loop so that a graph of their average value is displayed? And the resulting average value of the depth and speed of sound was recorded in a separate xls file?

[FileName,PathName]=uigetfile('*.xls');

num=readtable([PathName FileName]);

num=table2array(num);

plot(num(:,2),num(:,1))

axis ij

grid on

hold on

[Peter Perkins]

The three files have different depth profiles, not even the same lengths. What does "average value" mean? Do you want the average speed at each depth? If so, how do you want to reconcile the different depths? Interpolation?

Answer 1

[Chunru]

fn = dir('10G*.xls');
nfiles = length(fn);

ax(1) = subplot(121); hold on;
ax(2) = subplot(122); 
svp = cell(size(fn)); 

for i = 1:nfiles
    x = readtable(fullfile(fn(i).folder, fn(i).name));
    plot(ax(1), x.Var2, x.Var1); 
    svp{i} = [x.Var1 x.Var2];
end
axes(ax(1)); box on; grid on; ax(1).YDir ='reverse';
 
% average svp
depth = cellfun(@(x) x(end, 1), svp);       % depth of each profile
maxdepth=max(depth);
% create new grid
z = linspace(0, maxdepth, 101);
s = zeros(size(z));
for i=1:nfiles
    % interpolate the svp
    s = s + interp1(svp{i}(:, 1), svp{i}(:, 2), z);
end
s = s / nfiles;
plot(ax(2), s, z);
axes(ax(2)); box on; grid on; ax(2).YDir ='reverse';
linkaxes(ax, 'xy');

[Jony Smith]

Thank you!