hi lynn the bridge from grace’s editor to s7 is intended as a code editor and 
simply isnt made for huge wads of data.  

I would use an external app like emacs to edit the data in a .scm file and then 
simply load that file i Grace (or more speciically, into s7, which grace uses.) 
  so the scheme file would look like
(define mydata ‘(1 2 3
 ….. 24,000
))

also with huge data its possible may run out of heap space. if thats the case 
and depending on what you are tring to do, you could switch to the 
CM2/CLM/Common Lisp. those packages work will and common lisp would probably 
handle the large data sets that you are using.

> On Sep 11, 2016, at 7:07 PM, Lynn Artas <artasl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello list, 
> 
> I’m working with sonifying a large number of data points using grace. The 
> values are recorded as a .csv by another application, which I then open in 
> excel. From here, I have tried copying and pasting (paste special as 
> unformatted) into word (grace doesn't do anything when I try to replace ^M or 
> ^p) so I was using word for removing ^p and replacing with a space. I realize 
> grace might be working, but not be as obvious as word that it is working on 
> it. 
> 
> Here are a couple specific problems:
> 
> 1. formatting is a pain/fatal! both word and grace take minutes to paste the 
> data into a document, and word takes a few minutes just to search and replace 
> the ^p. I’ve tried to leave the data as is in the grace document (if it 
> works, it’s pretty enough for me), but I often get a crash just trying to 
> paste the data into a document in grace. Or a crash upon loading the second 
> 24000 point stream of data. (I'll need to load ten of these 24,000 streams) 
> When I leave the document to do something else while it churns, I get the 
> spinning beach ball of doom when I return to grace....aaaaand, as usual, just 
> had grace crash again while typing this while awaiting my paste. 
> 
> When I try with raw (unformatted) data, I've had it crash as I load 
> (evaluate) the second 24,000 stream.
> 
> 2. after I use Word to take out the ^p and replace with space, when I look at 
> the file with more in terminal, every number has a ^M (carriage return in 
> DOS/Windows-?!) in front of it and word won’t let me search and replace the 
> ^M. (^M is not a valid special character for the Find What box according to 
> MS word). 
> 
> Here are my questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a limit on the amount of data points you can load into memory, or 
> is it just the formatting characters gumming up the works? 
> 
> 2. And most important–can anyone outline a better way to work with big data 
> streams in grace?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help, 
> ~L.
> 
> 
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