I think the conversion would be a quick way out, but I also think that OmicABEL should allow for FLOAT input - otherwise people will end up tripling their existing FLOAT-based files storage. And this is really not a trivial amount of disk space to waste (talking of terabytes).<div>
<br></div><div>Diego, do you think this could be something relatively easily solvable?</div><div><br></div><div>YA <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:37 PM, L.C. Karssen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lennart@karssen.org" target="_blank">lennart@karssen.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear list,<br>
<br>
I was reading through the OmicABEL tutorial and noted that the DatABEL<br>
files should be in Double format. By default the GenABEL function<br>
mach2databel() creates float files.<br>
<br>
This means that all existing DatABEL files should be converted to<br>
double. I guess we should add a "convertType" program to the filevector<br>
utilities to make life easier for people. Or add a similar R function to<br>
DatABEL (and update mach2databel()).<br>
<br>
Does anybody have an idea if such a conversion from float to double can<br>
be done quickly? Of course conversion via an intermediate text file is<br>
also possible, but seems a bit awkward.<br>
<br>
<br>
As an aside, this would probably also fix the problems I ran into while<br>
trying to make ProbABEL compute everything in doubles (see<br>
<a href="http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/genabel-devel/2013-February/000505.html" target="_blank">http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/genabel-devel/2013-February/000505.html</a>).<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Lennart.<br>
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