E-Prime 2.0 Data Features

[David Fencsik]

You can generally use E-Recovery to convert the text file into an 
E-DataAid file.  I think the text data file produced by E-Run is 
intended for backup purposes, so it records data as soon as it becomes 
available, not in a nice, easy-to-read format.

Maybe it would be helpful if E-Run converted the .txt file into a 
separate tab-delimited text file instead of (or in addition to) 
generating a .edat file--this could be set by a preference in E-Studio. 
  It would certainly save time for those who have been posting comments 
on this topic so far.

David

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David Fencsik, Ph.D.
Research Fellow

Visual Attention Laboratory
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA  02115

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On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Ben Robinson wrote:

> it seems like the formatting of the text file data file could be 
> improved dramatically in future versions of eprime.
> if for any reason a program quits before having a chance to make a 
> .edat file, it would be nice to have a more useable trial-by-trial 
> recording of what went on.  something that, in a pinch, could be 
> opened in excel and understood.
>
> ben robinson
> research asst.
>
>
>
>
>>>> Brandon Cernicky <brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com> 6/28/2005 10:06 PM >>>
>
> The last couple weeks had a number of threads in
> relation to data handling in E-Prime.  The recent
> E-Prime 2.0 Feature Survey placed its emphasis on many
> of the design and implementation features and did not
> focus on any data handling improvements for E-Merge
> and E-DataAid.
>
> Please feel free to discuss any items you would like
> to see for E-Prime 2.0 in regards to E-Merge and
> E-DataAid.
>
> Improvements to export in general?
> Improvements to export to Excel?
> Improvements to export to SPSS?
> Improvements to export to XML?
>
> PST is certainly not going to try to reinvent the
> stats wheel and understand there are many stats
> packages available and exporting to them is intended.
> Are there any areas where E-Merge or E-DataAid could
> be improved to make it so that bouncing in-between
> packages would be reduced?
>
>
> -Brandon
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Brandon S. Cernicky
> Senior Software Engineer
> Psychology Software Tools