I forget to load the specific error message for the qdec.table.dat error.  Thanks again for your help.<br><br><i>Loading data table /Volumes/GEcontrols/qdec/qdec.table.dat...<br>QdecDataTable::Load: will attempt to open as Mac text file...<br>
Number of columns: 6<br>fsid column: 1<br>Number of factors: 5<br>Number of subjects: 150<br>ERROR: QdecDataTable::Load: problem parsin file /Volumes/GEcontrols/qdec/qdec.table.dat<br>This line did not appear to end with a newline:<br>
<br>Error loading the data table.</i><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Matt Warner <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mawfreesurfer@gmail.com">mawfreesurfer@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>I am trying to run qdec for group analysis of subcortical and cortical volumes.  I have all of my data in an excel sheet (subject ID, age, gender, volumes of various structures) and am trying to convert this into a file that will be able to be opened in qdec.  I use a Mac, and I have exported the sheet into text-edit and then resaved it as &quot;qdec.table.dat&quot;.  This .dat file opens perfectly in text-edit.  However, when I go to load the table into qdec it gives me an error:  &quot;error loading the data table&quot;<br>

<br>Is the dat file I created not compatible with qdec?  If so, is there another way in which I can transfer my data into a dat file?<br><br>Thank you very much in advance for your help,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Matt<br>

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