[Babase] ranks data -- conference needed?

Stephanie Combes babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:14:42 -0500


Hi gang,

   Surprise! I'm still linked into the babase emails.  I just thought I'd 
share a thought - Leah's computer is set up to do the remote access to the 
princeton computer.  She could change the ranks file directly on the 
princeton computer or create a new one at duke and copy it directly onto 
the princeton computer - thus avoiding the ftp'ing.

Back to being invisible...
steph

At 03:18 PM 1/31/2005, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry for the delay in responding to this, but I wanted to try and 
>understand the FTP process a bit more before writing back.  What I gather 
>is that FTP just copies files, it doesn't share or link them.  So Susan's 
>option 2 below with Leah FTP-ing the ranks.dbf file would work great if 
>that sounds like a good plan with everyone else.  Leah and I could 
>coordinate a good time to both transfer the current ranks.dbf file to her 
>computer and later transfer the updated ranks.dbf file back to my 
>computer.  That way I can be sure to not have the file open at the time 
>she wanted to FTP and not make any changes to the file in the interim that 
>she was working on updates.
>
>Catherine
>
>Susan Alberts wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Over the past 18 months or so I have been sending data to Daphne that is 
>>meant to be entered in the ranks file of  babase (it is data on male 
>>ranks). This is combination of actual male rankings (e.g. for 2001 and 
>>2002) and corrections of existing ranks. There are a number of these 
>>files, which Daphne (mostly) kept good track of but never 
>>entered,  presumably because she did not have time.
>>
>>We need to figure out what to do.  Options:
>>
>>1. Wait until the web-based version of babase is up and running and have 
>>this be among the first tasks that is transferred to Duke. Until then, 
>>live with incomplete and some incorrect ranks files for males.
>>
>>2. Have Leah enter them here (some manually, some using ranker) into 
>>ranks.dbf, during a 2 to 3 day period when we know that this is going on 
>>and no changes are made to the Princeton version of ranks. Then leah 
>>sends the updated version of ranks to Princeton and that becomes our new 
>>ranks file.
>>
>>3. Have Catherine enter them now.
>>
>>Becuase I am nervous about having these data piling up and not getting 
>>entered I favor 2 or 3 but need input from others. So far we have avoided 
>>solution 2 to these types of problems, for obvious reaons. Solution 3 is 
>>presumably a problem for the same reason that Daphne never entered them 
>>-- time constraints. What to do? Just wait until data can be entered from 
>>both places? Do we need a conference call or should we do this by email?
>>
>>Susan
>
>
>
>--
>Catherine Markham
>Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
>Princeton University
>Phone: (609) 258-6898 Fax: (609) 258-2712
>
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