Sent some files back channel.


> From: Jay Reeve <jayreeve@...>
> Reply-To: <futurebasic@...>
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:54:50 -0500
> To: <futurebasic@...>
> Subject: Re: [FB] Read binary data - need help
> 
> Pierre,
> 
> This sounds like it may be up my alley. May I take a look?
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 12:56 PM, PZ wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> I need help.
>> 
>> I wrote a simple data conversion program that reads four files and
>> assembles
>> the data into a tab-delimited spreadsheet.
>> 
>> one file contains the column labels - C
>> one file contains the row labels - R
>> and a third file contains the Abundance of C in sample R as
>> R,C,A¶
>> R,C,A¶
>> R,C,A¶
>> ...
>> R,C,A¶
>> A header file (4th) is always saved as text.
>> 
>> The original 30 year defunct (not available) program saved data as
>> ASCII
>> text or binary. My FB4 program works with 'text' files, but not
>> with the
>> binary.
>> 
>> I've tried to figure this one out, but must admit failure. Can
>> someone who
>> is a better programmer (most of this list) help me out. There may be a
>> little bit of money associated with this. It is an academic
>> endeavor, not
>> commercial, so I guessing it won't be a lot.
>> 
>> For the text files, my program reads R,C,A line by line and parses
>> the puts
>> the abundance A into an ArrayData(R,C). It reads samples line by
>> line and
>> puts row labels into RowLabel$(R) and it reads Column labels and
>> put those
>> into ColumnLabel$.
>> The row and column label files are easy enough to decipher with
>> TextWrangler, but the abundance file looks a bit crazy to me.
>> 
>> If someone wants to give it a try, let me know and I will send
>> files back
>> channel.
>> 
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