ANONYMOUS wrote:
Dear Professor,
I got confused after reading the threads. I want to clarify again about the input of the best_predictor script:
I understood that when: ./cantril_data_cleaning file1 file2 file3 --> The result will be sent to
stdout.
But for the best_predictor script, you said that "the input to best_predictor will be a TSV file"
so it means that for the cantril_data_cleaning, we will send the output both to stdout and a TSV
file and then that TSV file is used as the input for best_predictor. Is that correct?
For example: ./cantril_data_cleaning file1 file2 file3 . Besides printing to the stdout, it will also print the output to another file like sample1.tsv
--> Then we will: ./best_predictor sample1.tsv to report to stdout mean correlation ... like the sample
Thank you so much for your clarification!
Hi,
The requirements are:
- cantril_data_cleaning output is sent to standard output; input is from the 3 TSV format files
- best_predictor takes a TSV format file of cleaned data, and sends the output of the analysis to standard output
##Reasoning##
Having the output from cantril_data_cleaning go to stdout means that the user can choose to redirect stdout to a file of their choice, rather than trying to figure out what name the programmer has chosen, so while stdout - by default - prints to the screen, in practice it will generally be redirected into a file.
Fair enough?
Cheers
MichaelW
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