Read Excel file in Matlab and plot data

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Angel Lozada
Angel Lozada on 6 Oct 2025 at 16:54
Answered: Star Strider on 6 Oct 2025 at 17:12
I am trying to plot the cloumn 2 (amplitude) vs column 1 (time).
However, I am getting the same error:
Error using readtable (line 19)
Unable to find or open 'HUAM1709.041_v2'. Check the path and filename or file permissions.
Error in
data = readtable('HUAM1709.041_v2');
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Once I solve this inquiry I will be able to plot the other 2 amplitudes vs time.
Could you help yo identify the error?
Both .m file and excel file are in the same folder.
Attached will find excel file.
Thanks in advance.
T = data(:,1);
T = seconds(data(:,1));
T.Format = 'hh:mm';
T2 = data(:,2);
figure; % Place "figure" in this section allow to plot this data in a separate window.
plot (T,T2,'.');
title 'Accelerometer';
ylabel ('Amplitude');
xlabel ('Samples');

Accepted Answer

Star Strider
Star Strider 12 minutes ago
Use curly braces {} to access data in a table.
data = readtable('HUAM1709.041_v2.xlsx')
data = 24205×4 table
Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 _____ _______ _______ _______ 0 -0.0157 0.0107 0.0111 0.001 -0.0758 0.0469 0.0666 0.002 0.0612 -0.0408 -0.0544 0.003 0.0336 -0.0217 -0.0299 0.004 -0.0843 0.0514 0.0757 0.005 0.0203 -0.0118 -0.0166 0.006 0.0733 -0.046 -0.0622 0.007 -0.0646 0.04 0.0563 0.008 -0.0326 0.0207 0.0275 0.009 0.0863 -0.0513 -0.0724 0.01 -0.0209 0.017 0.0189 0.011 -0.0723 0.0441 0.0642 0.012 0.0668 -0.0397 -0.0556 0.013 0.0312 -0.0193 -0.0294 0.014 -0.0839 0.0517 0.0748 0.015 0.0207 -0.0104 -0.017
% return
T = data{:,1};
T = seconds(data{:,1});
T.Format = 'hh:mm';
T2 = data{:,2};
figure; % Place "figure" in this section allow to plot this data in a separate window.
plot (T,T2,'.');
title 'Accelerometer';
ylabel ('Amplitude');
xlabel ('Samples');
With those changes, you code works.
.

More Answers (1)

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson less than a minute ago
You need
data = readtable('HUAM1709.041_v2.xlsx');
When your provided filename has an extension, readtable does not attempt to add default extensions.

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