3dISC-sharing Error ("The content under -dataTable is not rectangular !", and the solution

[ptaylor]

Hi-

The spaces disappeared in your initial post because they were not put between backticks, to put them into "preformatted text"; highlighting and clicking the "</>" button at the top of the text field would do the same. Please see here:

typing about code or terminal text: please use backticks (and avoid screenshotting text)

Also, a fun feature of the codeblock backticks is that you can specify the highlighting language within the codeblock. Just put the name of the available script/programming language in the top line, where the opening backticks are: here, I started the codeblock with: ``` bash #!/bin/bash # comment varA=$1 varB=$2 echo "++ The variables are: ${varA} ${varB}" here, I started the codeblock with: ``` python # comment varA = 'some string' varB = '''another string''' print("++ The variables…

When putting what you posted in backticks, this is what it looks like:

• Initial post, first code block:

3dISC -prefix ISC2a -jobs 12 
-mask myMask+tlrc                     \
-model  'grp+(1|Subj1)+(1|Subj2)'     \
-gltCode ave     '1 0 -0.5'           \
-gltCode G11     '1 1 0'              \
-gltCode G12     '1 0 1'              \
-gltCode G22     '1 -1 -1'            \
-gltCode G11vG22 '0 2 1'              \
-gltCode G11vG12 '0 1 -2'             \
-gltCode G12vG22 '0 1 2'              \
-gltCode ave-G12 '0 0 -1.5'           \
-dataTable @data.txt                         \

• Initial post, second code block:

Subj1 Subj2    grp      InputFile       \
s01     s02      G11      s01_02+tlrc     \
s01     s03      G11      s01_03+tlrc     \
……
s04     s06      G22      s04_06+tlrc     \
s05     s06      G22      s05_06+tlrc

I will send you an email, and you can send us the first and second text files to take a look. I don't think the number of spaces should matter when reading in a file, but seeing the file will help. Note that when you have a datatable file, you also should not need the backslash at the end of the line: \. That "continuation of line character" is not necessary there.

Also, it might be helpful to update your AFNI. Recently, @discoraj added in nice functionality to be more specific about where non-rectangularity occurs in a datatable (like, reporting the line number). It will also give some helpful comments on datatable info, too.

--pt