[GenABEL-dev] GenABEL::cocohet on Windows

[Fan Liu]

Thanks Yurii, I will check it with Maksim.
For the course I will find out some simple alternatives.
Cheers,
Fan

On 2/22/2011 1:20 PM, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
> I have tried to run 'example(cocohet)' on Win machines (coo5, ge03/05
> installation). That would not run - the procedure 'cocohet' by default
> tries to generate a JPEG graph and exits with error.
>
> So, Fan, please do not assume 'cocohet' works for the course. Does
> work on my Mac book though, and should work on Linux as well.
>
> To follow-up - the problem is two-fold, I think:
>
> A) conventional logic is that analysis is done and then graphs are
> produced from the resulting object using 'plot...' function (this is
> also problem of GenABEL::estlambda, btw)
>
> B) it is assumed that JPEG can be produced, which is not always true,
> especially for Win
>
> I suppose we need to fill this in as a bug. What can be done as a
> quick fix - allow the plotting argument (manhetten_plot??? Btw, error
> in the city name here) to be NULL, in which case 'cocohet' should not
> attempt to produce a graph.
>
> Yurii
>


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