[GenABEL-dev] OmicABEL: DatABEL double format

[Yurii Aulchenko]

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).

Diego, do you think this could be something relatively easily solvable?

YA

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:37 PM, L.C. Karssen <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I was reading through the OmicABEL tutorial and noted that the DatABEL
> files should be in Double format. By default the GenABEL function
> mach2databel() creates float files.
>
> This means that all existing DatABEL files should be converted to
> double. I guess we should add a "convertType" program to the filevector
> utilities to make life easier for people. Or add a similar R function to
> DatABEL (and update mach2databel()).
>
> Does anybody have an idea if such a conversion from float to double can
> be done quickly? Of course conversion via an intermediate text file is
> also possible, but seems a bit awkward.
>
>
> As an aside, this would probably also fix the problems I ran into while
> trying to make ProbABEL compute everything in doubles (see
>
> http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/genabel-devel/2013-February/000505.html
> ).
>
>
>
> Lennart.
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