Accessing the data in ntuples

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Hello,
I have seen some similar topics here but cannot find quite what I’m looking for.
I used EventLoop to create ntuples, following the tutorial for ATLAS at:
[ATLAS Analysis Software Tutorial | Creating and Filling Trees/NTuples]
Each variable is filled into a vector of floats which is then filled into the tree.
I want to work with the resulting ntuple, going through each variable and calculating simple things like mean and covariance.
The problem is that I cannot seem to extract the data from the ntuple. Here is what my Tree looks like:
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I have tried following instructions that involve

TFile *mainInput = new TFile("path/to/file", "READ");
	TTree* mainTree = (TTree*)mainInput->Get("VarNTuple");
	
	std::vector<float>* WidthHigh;

	mainTree->SetBranchAddress("WidthHigh", &WidthHigh);

But any attempts to Draw or scan or show after this are failing.
What do I need to do to access data from a Tree of vectors like this?
Thanks,
Alex

2

At least: std::vector<float> *WidthHigh = 0;

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Here’s what you should do:

ROOT::EnableImplicitMT(); // use all cores
ROOT::RDataFrame rdf("VarNTuple", "path/to/file");
auto hist = rdf.Histo1D("EMB1FracHigh");
auto meanTrackPt500 = rdf.Mean("AvgTrackPt500FracHigh");
std::cout << "meanTrackPt500 = " << *meanTrackPt500 << '\n';
hist->Draw();

This is an example showing a histogram and an average; you can do way more, see the documentation. This is way faster, and it’s way easier for you to evolve this into a full-blown analysis.