[Babase] Sample with no sample type

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Tue May 15 13:41:49 EDT 2007


Awesome, Thanks tabby! I appreciate it :)

Lacey

kfenn wrote:
> Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> Karl and I just spoke about this error, and it seems like what 
>> happened is that we had an invalid sname come up in the Psion files. 
>> We changed it in Foxpro from WVL to WYL as per the point samples logs 
>> from the team.  However, this sample had no points, as all were OS.  
>> So, Karl's program is trained to essentially go back to the original 
>> Psion file to make sure there are no points, and when it tried to do 
>> that, it couldn't find a sample on 060524 for WYL... because it was 
>> listed at WVL.
>> Anyway, I changed the file to say "WYL" and the problem should 
>> disappear.  Karl is going to save the most current Psion Files now, 
>> and use them in the next conversion, which should get rid of this error.
>>
>> Lacey
>>
>> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Looks like there's a problem that does not show up in the error
>>> reports.  The following psion sample has no points and the
>>> conversion is unable to assign it a sample type (female or
>>> juvenile) by looking at the raw psion data.
>>>
>>> 37205   20060524        RSM             2.1     WYL     10      
>>> 0       SETUP_JUL03     1
>>>
> Lacey:  I just cut and pasted your exchange with Karl into the 
> changelog so we have a record of everything there.
>
> Karl:   I assume that I don't need to do or know anything regarding 
> PSION_NEW file when I next upload to papio?  It doesn't directly 
> change any of the tables in Babase 1.0 does it....you just need it for 
> the conversion...?
>
> Tabby
>

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Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
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