[Radiance-general] Errors while transposing with Rcollate.

[Greg Ward]

Anyone else have any ideas or suggestions?  Honestly, I don't know why redirecting stdin from a file would fail completely.  I thought this was supported under Windows.

I'm stumped.

-G

> From: "Sarith Subramaniam" <sarith at psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Errors while transposing with Rcollate.
> Date: June 15, 2015 9:45:56 PM PDT
> 
> Hi Greg,
>  
>  
> The command that you suggested returns the usage options for rcollate in windows. (ie.  Usage: rcollate [-h[io]………..)
>  
> Earlier, I had tried feeding the file to rcollate via stdin through using pipe ( | ) as well as the ‘type a.txt’ shell command in windows but didn’t get it work either way.
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Sarith
>  
> From: Greg Ward [mailto:gregoryjward at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:04 AM
> To: Radiance general discussion
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Errors while transposing with Rcollate.
>  
> Hi Sarith,
>  
> This seems related to the broken handling of text versus binary files under Windows.  Try reading the file from stdin, instead:
>  
> rcollate –h –fa1 –t < a.txt > d.txt
>  
> If this works, let me know and I'll see if I can put in a fix.
>  
> Cheers,
> -Greg
> 
> 
> From: "Sarith Subramaniam" <sarith at psu.edu>
> Subject: [Radiance-general] Errors while transposing with Rcollate.
> Date: June 15, 2015 5:09:13 PM PDT
>  
> Hi everyone,
>  
>  
> I am trying to do a transpose with rcollate. My operating system is Windows. My file contains rgb triplets arranged in a (8760columns x 60rows) matrix. I either get a “error loading file into memory” or an incorrect transpose.
>  
>  
> I found that I got the same results with a simple ASCII file with tab separated values. My file contains:
>  
> 1          2          3          4
> 5          6          7          8
> 9          10         11         12
>  
>  
> The following commands return “error loading file into memory”:
>  
> rcollate –h –fa1 –t a.txt >d.txt
>  
> rcollate –h –fa1 –ic 4 –oc 3–t a.txt >d.txt
>  
>  
> I found that the ‘-t’ flag was responsible for the error, so I tried explicitly stating the values for columns and rows as:
>  
> rcollate –h –fa1 –ic 4 –ir 3 –oc 3 –ir 4 a.txt>d.txt
>  
> This gave me.
> 1          2          3
> 4          5          6
> 7          8          9
> 10         11         12
>  
>  
> Am I missing something?
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Sarith
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