Category Archives: UDFs

Indexing NumPy arrays with floats …

… now you can’t. I recently updated to the latest version of NumPy (1.12.1), and today I discovered that some of my spreadsheets using NumPy arrays (via xlwings) were returning errors like: IndexError: only integers, slices (`:`), ellipsis (`…`), numpy.newaxis … Continue reading

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Extracting numbers from text – update

I have previously posted a spreadsheet with user defined functions (UDFs) using regular expressions to extract numbers from a text string (see Extracting numbers from text and regular expressions). I have now modified the Extractnums function to optionally return the numbers … Continue reading

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The meaning of = in Python

In VBA, if you have an array named a and a variant named b, then the statement “b = a” creates a new array b with the same size and values as a.  If the values of either a or b are subsequently changed, the values of the … Continue reading

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ConBeamU 4.13

The continuous beam analysis spreadsheet, ConBeamU, is now up to version 4.13 with some minor bug-fixes, and the addition of a non-linear option for the BeamAct functions. See ConBeamU for more details of the functions available in the spreadsheet. Download … Continue reading

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Weighted Least Squares Regression, using Excel, VBA, Alglib and Python

Least squares linear regression in Excel is easy.  That’s what the Linest and Trend functions do.  That is, they find the coefficients of a straight line (or higher dimension shape) so that the sum of the squares of the distances of … Continue reading

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