<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Basta,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Your manual tells us how to make data frames for the capture data with CensusToCaptHist.R, and for covariates, but its not clear how to add b and d dates to the capture data.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This can be easily done in Excel by pasting in the output from the CensusToCaptHist.R program, but then I can't get Basta to accept this data as a data frame. Here is the format I am using:</div><div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">ID Birth Death 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
1 1990 d1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 1992 d2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
3 b1 d3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
4 b2 d4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
5 b3 d5 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 </span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Thanks!</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Cliff Cunningham</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Professor</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Biology Department</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Duke University</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "> 130 Science Drive</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Durham NC 27708<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Phone 919-660-7356<br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham">http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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