E-Prime 2.0 Data Features

[Amy Eschman]

The E-Recovery text file is used for recovering as much data as possible
when the experiment ends prior to conversion to EDAT format (an error
occurs, or the user presses Ctrl+Alt+Shift).  If you want the ability to
end an experiment early, you can add a small piece of InLine script
called a "graceful abort" that will allow you to terminate an experiment
after a trial or block without losing the data file.  The graceful abort
script checks the value of GetUserBreakState to see if a special key
sequence has been pressed.  A description of the graceful abort can be
found in Section 2.8.2 of the E-Prime User's Guide.

 

Amy Eschman

Psychology Software Tools

 

 

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From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On
Behalf Of Jordan Bigio
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:22 AM
To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
Subject: Re: E-Prime 2.0 Data Features

 

I agree with Ben. I don't use the text files much, but if we had to quit
an experiment, a usable edat file would be great. 

Jordan

At 09:52 AM 6/29/2005 -0400, 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

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Brandon S. Cernicky
Senior Software Engineer
Psychology Software Tools


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