I'm using addplot to create figures from an external txt file. I want to create different figures, using an increasing number of lines of the data file. Obviously i can create different data files with the requested rows, but it is not possible to gives some option to addplot table so that it reads only the first $n$ rows of the file (something similar to the choice of the columns in a multicolumn file)?
My final goal is to build an animation using the different images so created and I have a file with more that $1000$ rows.
skip coords between indexto get the desired result? – Stefan Pinnow Feb 19 '17 at 21:27