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[Parasaurolophus]

Isn't it more likely that they are NOT teaching 20+ sections each semester?

I certainly can't imagine doing even an adequate job of it.

[cathwen]

I just found this skating couple and I'm in awe...

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOCuxsRnVTQ

Of course, sounds like they're retiring/retired now, but....wow.

M.

+1, just.......wow.  Incredible.  Thanks so much for sharing the link.

What a lovely way to begin the morning!

Breathtaking! 

[ergative]

So: If you want to write a row from a dataframe to an output file, updating with a new line each time an iteration in your simulation has finished running, the following commands do not work:

write(dataframeline, ncol=17, sep=',', append=TRUE) Nope! This apparently assuems that all your data is numerical, and if there is any character text, such as VITALLY IMPORTANT LABELS FOR WHICH SIMULATION JUST FINISHED, it will write them out as '1'. Of course, this only applies to the version of R on my university's computing cluster, not the version on my computer. So all my local test runs of the script were great, but the real runs are spitting out unusable data.

write.csv(dataframeline, sep=',', append=TRUE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE) NOpe! Despite the argument 'append=TRUE', write.csv() blithely ignores it, and just overwrites the results file with the new line of the dataframe each time.

write.table(dataframeline, sep=',', append-TRUE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE) That's the winner! Only took me two weeks to land upon this, and it will be another few days before I'll start seeing what the actual simulation data looks like, which means I won't know for sure that this worked properly until Friday at the earliest.

Arrgh.

[marshwiggle]

So: If you want to write a row from a dataframe to an output file, updating with a new line each time an iteration in your simulation has finished running, the following commands do not work:

write(dataframeline, ncol=17, sep=',', append=TRUE) Nope! This apparently assuems that all your data is numerical, and if there is any character text, such as VITALLY IMPORTANT LABELS FOR WHICH SIMULATION JUST FINISHED, it will write them out as '1'. Of course, this only applies to the version of R on my university's computing cluster, not the version on my computer. So all my local test runs of the script were great, but the real runs are spitting out unusable data.

write.csv(dataframeline, sep=',', append=TRUE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE) NOpe! Despite the argument 'append=TRUE', write.csv() blithely ignores it, and just overwrites the results file with the new line of the dataframe each time.

write.table(dataframeline, sep=',', append-TRUE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE) That's the winner! Only took me two weeks to land upon this, and it will be another few days before I'll start seeing what the actual simulation data looks like, which means I won't know for sure that this worked properly until Friday at the earliest.

Arrgh.

Gotta love those poorly-documented features in software. 'Cause what else were you going to spend your time on?

[ab_grp]

R is great for a lot of things and is very versatile, but I absolutely hate it for data management.  I'm sure the R gurus can keep up with the different functions and their particulars, but I feel as though I constantly have to write out to some format, then convert it to another format, read it in in some format, convert it again, etc.

[ergative]

R is great for a lot of things and is very versatile, but I absolutely hate it for data management.  I'm sure the R gurus can keep up with the different functions and their particulars, but I feel as though I constantly have to write out to some format, then convert it to another format, read it in in some format, convert it again, etc.

Hard same. I learned Perl--and later Python--simply because I had data in a form that wouldn't work with R, and I had to convert it.

[Parasaurolophus]

The hatchling hatched this morning at 00h33. It was a very difficult hatching, but ended well.

[Langue_doc]

The hatchling hatched this morning at 00h33. It was a very difficult hatching, but ended well.

Congrats! Be well, both of you.

[ab_grp]

Congratulations, Parasaurolophus and now-extended family! I'm sorry to hear that it was difficult, but I'm glad that you are all doing well now and wish you lots of happiness!

[ergative]

The hatchling hatched this morning at 00h33. It was a very difficult hatching, but ended well.

Mazel tov! Here's to a new life in a (let's hope) better year!

[cathwen]

Congratulations on the new life you are welcoming into your family!  All best wishes for good health and happiness.

[Puget]

The hatchling hatched this morning at 00h33. It was a very difficult hatching, but ended well.

Mazel tov! Here's to a new life in a (let's hope) better year!

Yes, congrats!

[apl68]

Congratulations!

[AmLitHist]

Congratulations, Parasaurolophus, and great joy to all of you!

[wareagle]

Hope ParaMom is doing well.  Congrats!