RE: [NMusers] No Fit file -> bug or not a bug?

I guess this depends on how you define "bug". If a feature of an
application (NONMEM run with Fortran) causes an error (failure of a table to
be created, as in this case, or a data record not to be included in the data
set) on one of the intended operating systems (Windows), I would (in my
opinion) call it a bug. I would suggest fixing this known issue so others
don't have to puzzle over it (or worse, omit a data record unknowingly).

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com [mailto:owner-nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Sale - Next Level Solutions
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:04 PM
Cc: nmusers
Subject: RE: [NMusers] No Fit file

Thanks for clarifying this Alison, I think I did know this is a fortran
I/O issue, not really a NMTRAN issue. Clearly we should all go back to
MS-DOS edit ;-) (only us really old people even remember MS-DOS).



Mark Sale MD
Next Level Solutions, LLC
www.NextLevelSolns.com


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [NMusers] No Fit file
> From: "Alison Boeckmann" <alisonboeckmann_at_fastmail.fm>
> Date: Tue, May 22, 2007 5:41 pm
> To: "Mark Sale - Next Level Solutions" <mark_at_nextlevelsolns.com>
> Cc: "nmusers" <nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com>
>
> This is not a bug in NM-TRAN. But I can see how it happens in
> MS-DOS. Both wordpad and notepad (unlike ms-dos edit and unix vi) will
> write a file whose last line does not terminate with cr/lf. Such a line
> is invisible to the Fortran I/O libraries that are part of g77
> (in the MS-DOS environment) and FORTRAN 77 5.0 (in the Solaris
> environment).
>
> I tested this in both MS-DOS and Solaris with a little fortran program
> that branches to statement 10 when an end of file condition occurs.
>
>
> program read
> character*10 text
> read (5,55,end=10) text
> print *,text
> 55 format (A10)
> stop
> 10 print *,'nothing read'
> end
>
> I created a file named infile containing only "1234567890" with no cr/lf
> using notepad. I copied it to Solaris using ftp. In both environments,
> when the program is run with infile as input, it produces
> the output "nothing read". E.g., in Solaris,
>
> % f77 read.for
> read.for:
> MAIN read:
> % a.out<infile
> nothing read
>
> I don't know how to overcome this problem. Changing the format from A10
> to (say)
> A1 or * does not help. It seems to me it is a bug (or maybe a design
> feature?) in the Fortran I/O library.
>
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:56:18 -0700, "Mark Sale - Next Level Solutions"
> <mark_at_nextlevelsolns.com> said:
> > Navin, If you're not getting the table file you expect, if may be
> > because NMtran (5 at least) seems to have a small bug that it will
> > sometimes ignore the last line of a control file if there isn't a
> > carriage return/line feed at the end. Try just hitting Enter after
> > the $TABLE record and saving. WRT plots, two options are Xpose from
> > the Upsala group (R/Splus, http://xpose.sourceforge.net) or an excel
> > macro from Next Level Solutions (www.nextlevelsolns.com)
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Sale MD Next Level Solutions, LLC www.NextLevelSolns.com
> >
> >
> > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [NMusers] No Fit
> > > file From: "Bachman, William (MYD)" <bachmanw_at_iconus.com> Date: Tue,
> > > May 22, 2007 2:48 pm To: "navin goyal" <navin1180_at_gmail.com>,
> > > "nmusers" <nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com>
> > >
> > > according to your code, your run should have created a file named
> > > "drug3.sdtab". this file contains a table with these columns "ID
> > > TIME AMT MDV DV EVID CMT" and DV PRED RES WRES. You can import
> > > this file into Excel. You will have to manually create the graphs
> > > unless you have a macro that can do it.
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >
> > > From: owner-nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com [mailto:owner-
> > > nmusers_at_globomaxnm.com] On Behalf Of navin goyal Sent: Tuesday, May
> > > 22, 2007 2:20 PM To: nmusers Subject: [NMusers] No Fit file
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello everybody, I am trying to run a control stream for my data
> > > using NONMEM 6. I get the output file with the objective function
> > > and other estimates. The problem is that I do not get the fit
> > > file that can be opened in excel. I guess I am missing out
> > > something in the control stream, but just cannot figure it out.
> > > Any suggestions would be appreciated The last part in the control
> > > stream is posted below
> > >
> > >
> > > $ESTIMATION METHOD=1 MAXEVAL=9999 PRINT=5 POSTHOC $COVARIANCE
> > >
> > > $TABLE ID TIME AMT MDV DV EVID CMT NOPRINT ONEHEADER
> > > FILE=drug3.sdtab
> > >
> > > thanks a lot
> > >
> > > Navin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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