Of course, once I ask for help I stumble immediately upon the solution. There appears to be a limit to the number of columns that QDEC is willing to put up with when reading in tables. If I create a table that only has the few columns that I'm interested in (as opposed to the kitchen sink spreadsheet I was working with), then it reads in without error.

Thanks for the help by proxy!
Jim


On 9/22/10 10:38 AM, Nick Schmansky wrote: 
can you send me the file?  

n.

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:28 -0500, James Porter wrote:

Hello-

I'm having a resurgence of an old problem
(http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg12152.html) but the old solution is not cutting it. When I try to load a table in QDEC 1.4, I get the following error:

    Loading data table qdec.table.dat...
    ERROR: QdecDataTable::Load did not find a column named 'fsid',
'ID', or 'Subject' in the first column of qdec.table.dat!
    Error loading the data table.

However, the file definitely does have 'fsid' as the first column.

    > head qdec.table.dat | awk '{print $1, $2, $3}'
    fsid Sex AgeGrp
    14080 Female Oldr
    14081 Female Oldr
    14286 Female Oldr
    14287 Female Oldr
    14390 Female Oldr
    14391 Male Oldr
    14392 Male Oldr
    14428 Female Oldr
    14430 Male Oldr

Creating the file on Windows, Mac, and Unix platforms using a variety
of programs (kate, oocalc, text wrangler, excel, word, notepad, etc)
with 'fsid', 'ID', or 'Subject' as the column title doesn't help, nor
does running dos2unix on the file(s). Having tab delimited or space
delimited files doesn't make any difference, either. Trying to open
the tables with QDEC in Unix (RedHat) or Mac (10.6.4) doesn't change
the outcome. 

Any ideas on how to solve this riddle?

Thanks,
Jim
-- 
Jim Porter, M.A.
Graduate Student
Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research
University of Minnesota

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