[Babase] maturedate and point samples error RWA

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Wed Jan 23 09:02:26 EST 2008


yup, I did both at the same time.  :)  Glad the fix was that simple! :)

kfenn wrote:
> Thanks for the help on this.  The dread adult versus juvenile 
> errors...I forgot about those.  Karl, is there any way to change the 
> message so it says 'adult female' in there instead of just "female".   
> I need something that directs my diagnostic efforts better.  I wasn't 
> even thinking in the direction of adult versus juvenile...I was 
> focused on the dates.
>
> Lacey, RWA's maturedate successfully uploaded to babase_test.  Have 
> you also altered the babase database as well?  I'm running everything 
> through babase_test first, but I don't want to run into the same error 
> when I do the real update.  This issue will leak through my sieve of a 
> brain by then and I will be emailing you next week with the same 
> question.
>
> Tabby
>
> Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> Well, I found it, and its clearly an error in samples... there is one 
>> 'F' sample for her, amid 141 'J' samples.  I will go ahead and just 
>> delete this sample, as is our protocol, since different information 
>> is collected for each type.
>>
>> Lacey
>>
>> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>>>
>>> A female should not be sampled as an adult female when they're
>>> a juvenile.  The female samples all have information about
>>> offspring, and juveniles should not have offspring.
>>> There is however a year of slop having something to do with
>>> Jeanne and Susan's official determination v.s. that of
>>> the field workers that do the sampling.

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Lacey Maryott
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Department of Biology
Duke University
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