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Re: [ferret_users] TXT file error



Hi,

The file has "...." for missing data. The commands for reading text data do not automatically handle missing data.  Ferret reads all of the data for each column and analyzes the text.  If a column has any text which  can't be interpreted as numeric values, it is marked as being of type string.  I would suggest you edit the file and replace  "...." with a fixed numerical value, perhaps a large negative value such as -99999.  Then after opening the file with the columns command, assign that value as the missing-value flag, for the numeric columns:

yes? columns/delimiter=" " edited_file.txt
yes?  list/i=1:6 v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6,v7,v8,v9
             DATA SET: ./edited_file.txt
             X: 0.5 to 6.5
 Column  1: V1
 Column  2: V2
 Column  3: V3
 Column  4: V4
 Column  5: V5
 Column  6: V6
 Column  7: V7
 Column  8: V8
 Column  9: V9
         V1   V2  V3     V4        V5        V6       V7      V8       V9
1   / 1: "I" "/" "*:"  -99999.   -99999.   -99999.  202297.  1.000   202297.
2   / 2: "I" "/" "*:"  -99999.   -99999.  1428230.  280305.  3.000  1045588.
3   / 3: "I" "/" "*:"  136578.   -99999.   -99999.  -99999.  4.000   136578.
4   / 4: "I" "/" "*:"  402575.   -99999.   -99999.  974506.  5.000   516961.
5   / 5: "I" "/" "*:"  -99999.   -99999.   -99999.  -99999.  0.000   -99999.
6   / 6: "I" "/" "*:"  -99999.  1380901.   -99999.  -99999.  3.000  1380901.

yes? set var/bad=-99999 v4
yes?  list/i=1:6 v4,v5,v6,v7,v8,v9
             DATA SET: ./
edited_file.txt
             X: 0.5 to 6.5
 Column  1: V4
 Column  2: V5
 Column  3: V6
 Column  4: V7
 Column  5: V8
 Column  6: V9
              V4      V5        V6       V7      V8       V9
1   / 1:     ....   -99999.   -99999.  202297.  1.000   202297.
2   / 2:     ....   -99999.  1428230.  280305.  3.000  1045588.
3   / 3:  136578.   -99999.   -99999.  -99999.  4.000   136578.
4   / 4:  402575.   -99999.   -99999.  974506.  5.000   516961.
5   / 5:     ....   -99999.   -99999.  -99999.  0.000   -99999.
6   / 6:     ....  1380901.   -99999.  -99999.  3.000  1380901.

yes? plot v4

and likewise set the flag for v5 through v9.  You can also give the variables meaningful names, units and titles with more qualifiers on the SET VARIABLE/  command.

Ansley

On 11/16/2017 3:05 AM, Gopal Mondal wrote:
Dear all ferret_users
                          I am using ferret v7.1 and facing the problem given bellow:
columns/delimiter=" " 2015earkdaymask@xxxxxx
yes? sh da
     currently SET data sets:
    1> ./2015earkdaymask@xxxxxx  (default)
 name     title                             I         J         K         L         M         N
 V1       V1                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V2       V2                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V3       V3                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V4       V4                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V5       V5                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V6       V6                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V7       V7                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V8       V8                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V9       V9                               1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
 V10      V10                              1:365     ...       ...       ...       ...       ...
       (all values missing)
 
yes? list/i=1:10 v9
             VARIABLE : V9
             FILENAME : 2015earkdaymask@xxxxxx
             SUBSET   : 10 points (X)
 1    /  1:"202297."
 2    /  2:"1045588."
 3    /  3:"136578."
 4    /  4:"516961."
 5    /  5:"...."   
 6    /  6:"1380901."
 7    /  7:"1753288."
 8    /  8:"438989."
 9    /  9:"3051724."
 10   / 10:"92545."

why the values are comming in between " ". I can"t understand. I can't plot the values. please help. Thanks in advance

Gopal


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