[Babase] Re: Ooops, census bug

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Mon Nov 20 09:47:31 EST 2006


Hi Karl,

This is the file I uploaded to babase_copy while we were on the phone 
that day.  If I query census for ZAN, he is absent through July 20th, 
but he never shows up as present for the rest of the census days in that 
month.  Likewise, if I query APO, none of his July records show up at 
all.  It seems that the blanks in the file are not being interpreted as 
"presences".


Tabby

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Please send me a test file (the tab delimited one,
> although you can include the spreadsheet too if desired)
> so that I can be sure I'm seeing the same thing you are.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 11/15/2006 11:03:02 AM, kfenn wrote:
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> I was playing with the online UPCEN program again.  I realized that 
>> it didn't load any of my "present" individuals....only my "absent" 
>> ones (My fault for just doing a quick check on the absent individuals 
>> while we were checking this....I should have checked a few present 
>> individuals too).
>> Then I tried to re-load the census file using Xs for the present 
>> individuals and the program said:
>> Bad data (X) at line 2, column 9 (etc etc)
>>
>> Apparently it doesn't recognize the Xs or blanks as present 
>> individuals... so it needs some tweaking.
>>
>> The good news is that when I tried to upload duplicate information, 
>> the program successfully stopped me with an error message.
>>
>>
>> Tabby
>>
>> --Tabby Fenn
>> Research Assistant
>>
>> Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>> 401 Guyot Hall
>> Princeton University
>> Princeton, NJ  08544
>>
>> 609 258-6898 (Ph)
>> 609 258-2712 (Fx)
>>
>>
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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-- 
Tabby Fenn
Research Assistant

Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
401 Guyot Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ  08544

609 258-6898 (Ph)
609 258-2712 (Fx)

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APO								
ARS								
AYU								
AZI								
EBA								
JOB								
LIB								
NYU								
OBR								
ORN								
OTI								
REX								
TAL								
YOB								
ZOR								
NIN
TAP
CRU
GOM
COO
BUC
FAB
FAM
SAT
COS
COT
HAD
SEE
FIW
NOS
SAS
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HOF							
FRU							
ZAW							
ZAN	0	0	0	0	0	0	
CAB							
CAI							
CHE							
COB							
DRO							
DUX							
FAC							
FAX							
FLA							
HOK							
HOL
HON
HUM
HYM
MON
NIK
NUT
SCE
SNA
SOR
SEI
HAS
HES
DUR
DAP
HUC
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