[Babase] revised ranker ready for testing

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Mon May 5 14:07:54 EDT 2008


Hi Jun,

Thanks for all the updates you have made.  I've been using Ranker the 
last two days and it is hugely improved.  It seems the A code is only 
picking up that which it should.

Unfortunately, I've found one issue so far that's still significant 
enough to keep me from being able to run the ranks:

 Ranker is dropping some individuals from the cumulative matrix I need 
to create for each group.  The attached word doc shows an example of 
this:  FAC disappears from the Jan-June matrix depending on the month of 
ranking I choose.  (The problem seems to be Ranker only uses the 
individuals in that appear in the "Ranking" month, rather than 
incorporating all individuals from the "Interactions" date range.)  It's 
not an option to skip the month of ranking, nor is it an option to input 
the start date as Jan and the end date as June...Ranker wants the start 
and end date to be in the same month.  Can we make the program less 
"fool-proof" by allowing the ranking start and end date to NOT be within 
the same month?  This seems like the only way to get around dropping 
individuals from a 6 month or 1 year long matrix.  The database managers 
will just have to be careful not to try to save the rankings from 
cumulative matrices. 

Of course I'm open to any other possible workarounds.


Thanks!
Tabby


Jun Yang wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I've updated the ranker code. Please check it out and let me know if
> there is any remaining problems.
>
> * User can now choose, when creating a ranking, whether to load
> existing ranking (if one exists) or to use default ranking rules.
>
> * User can now choose, when creating a ranking, the interaction class
> (default is A) to show in the matrix.
>
> * While editing a ranking, user can load/incorporate an existing
> ranking, apply default ranking rules, or simply sort individuals by
> sname (these actions can be undone).
>
> * User can mouse-over an sname and see the detailed information
> obtained from babase, including mature date and adult rank attainment
> date (when applicable).
>
> * A number of minor bugs also have been fixed (e.g., when overwriting
> an existing XML file).
>
> --- Jun Y.
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-- 
Tabby Fenn
Research Assistant

Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Princeton University
Princeton, NJ  08544

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