withtol

Time tolerance for timetable row subscripting

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Syntax

S = withtol(rowTimes,tol)

Description

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S = withtol(rowTimes,tol) creates a subscript to select rows of a timetable. S selects all rows whose row times match a time in rowTimes within the tolerance specified by tol. The rowTimes argument is a datetime or duration array, or a cell array of character vectors that specify dates and times. tol must be a duration value.

If rowTimes contains datetime values, then you can only use S to subscript into a timetable whose row times are datetime values. Similarly, if rowTimes contains duration values, then you can only use S to subscript into a timetable whose row times are duration values.

Examples

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Create a timetable that contains temperature and pressure data with row times in hours. There is a slight random variance in the row times. Select rows with row times that match corresponding times in a time vector within a tolerance of five seconds.

Time = datetime(2015,12,18) + hours(1:10)' + seconds(randn(10,1));
Temp = [37.3 39.1 42.3 42.6 43 43.9 44.1 43.3 42.5 42]';
Pressure = [29.4 29.6 30.0 30.0 30.1 29.9 29.9 29.8 29.6 29.7]';
TT = timetable(Time,Temp,Pressure)
TT=10×2 timetable
            Time            Temp    Pressure
    ____________________    ____    ________

    18-Dec-2015 01:00:00    37.3      29.4  
    18-Dec-2015 02:00:01    39.1      29.6  
    18-Dec-2015 02:59:57    42.3        30  
    18-Dec-2015 04:00:00    42.6        30  
    18-Dec-2015 05:00:00      43      30.1  
    18-Dec-2015 05:59:58    43.9      29.9  
    18-Dec-2015 06:59:59    44.1      29.9  
    18-Dec-2015 08:00:00    43.3      29.8  
    18-Dec-2015 09:00:03    42.5      29.6  
    18-Dec-2015 10:00:02      42      29.7

Create a time vector spanning the hours from 3:00 to 8:00.

newTimes = datetime(2015,12,18) + hours(3:8)
newTimes = 1x6 datetime
Columns 1 through 3

   18-Dec-2015 03:00:00   18-Dec-2015 04:00:00   18-Dec-2015 05:00:00

Columns 4 through 6

   18-Dec-2015 06:00:00   18-Dec-2015 07:00:00   18-Dec-2015 08:00:00

Select rows of TT with row times that match times in newTimes within five seconds.

S = withtol(newTimes,seconds(5));
TT2 = TT(S,:)
TT2=6×2 timetable
            Time            Temp    Pressure
    ____________________    ____    ________

    18-Dec-2015 02:59:57    42.3        30  
    18-Dec-2015 04:00:00    42.6        30  
    18-Dec-2015 05:00:00      43      30.1  
    18-Dec-2015 05:59:58    43.9      29.9  
    18-Dec-2015 06:59:59    44.1      29.9  
    18-Dec-2015 08:00:00    43.3      29.8

Input Arguments

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Times to match in a timetable, specified as a datetime array, duration array, cell array of character vectors, or string array. rowTimes contains times that do not exactly match times in the row times of a timetable, but that might be within a specified tolerance.

If rowTimes is a cell array of character vectors or string array, then the elements of the array specify dates and times that the datetime or duration functions can convert.

Tolerance for matching times to the row times of a timetable, specified as a duration, character vector, or string scalar.

If tol is a character vector or string scalar, then tol specifies a time that the duration function can convert.

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