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    started a topic merging excel files - but a bit trickier than usual

    merging excel files - but a bit trickier than usual

    Advanced thanks for any helping. I'm running Python on a Mac OS X.

    Here's the basic situation. A single group of people had various health measurements performed on them over the course of a few decades. But individuals dropped out of the study between examinations. For instance, for the first exam there were 3,000 individuals, then for the second exam (a few years later), there were 2,500, and so on. By the last exam, exam 26,...
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  • BBMcL
    replied to Creating excel masterfile
    Great. That helps quite a bit. Thank you.
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  • BBMcL
    replied to Creating excel masterfile
    Great, thanks

    This was very helpful, so thank you very much.

    After playing around with this for quite a while today, I think I'm well on my way to figuring out the specific task I have.

    I can extract a particular column from an excel .xls file just fine. Let's say I extract it from extract_file.xl s. I then use the command to join that column with another file - say, 'other_file.csv ' - and that seems to...
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    Last edited by bvdet; Jan 9 '10, 03:21 PM. Reason: Add code tags

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  • BBMcL
    started a topic Creating excel masterfile

    Creating excel masterfile

    Hi, advanced thanks for any help...

    I'm relatively new to programming (two weeks or so), so forgive me if I make some terminological errors here.

    I'm using OS X and have a collection of excel files with a lot of data on them. I want to take one particular column out of a particular excel file, and put it into a new excel file. How can I do this?
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