question about selector syntax error 5

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Hello,

I’m running a 3dLME script. Previously I had run it with a few categorical regressors and 2 continuous regressors and it worked. Now all I did was take out one of the continuous regressors. Now the script is giving me the following error. I am cutting and pasting the data table out of the old script into Excel and back into AFNI and I simply get rid of the one column in the data table with its headers. I’ve checked for mislaid spaces and inappropriate end of line slashes, and so now I’m a bit stumped about what may be causing the error. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I’ve pasted the error below.

Best,
Aviva Olsavsky

Reading input files now…

** ERROR: selector syntax error 5 ‘happy’
** ERROR: bad sub-brick selector [happy
** ERROR: Dset /data2/psychology/kimlab/fmri/studies/IDEA/infantpic/joelPPI/data/s2000/s2000.results/stats.s2000+tlrc[happy could not be loaded
** ERROR: selector syntax error 5 ‘happy’
** ERROR: bad sub-brick selector [happy
** ERROR: Dset /data2/psychology/kimlab/fmri/studies/IDEA/infantpic/joelPPI/data/s2000/s2000.results/stats.s2000+tlrc[happy could not be loaded

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Check the line that contains the following, and see if you can identify anything fishy:

/data2/psychology/kimlab/fmri/studies/IDEA/infantpic/joelPPI/data/s2000/s2000.results/stats.s2000+tlrc[happy

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Hi,
Give the 3dMVM_validator beta a try to test your -dataTable.
https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc/htmldoc/tutorials/3dMVM_validator/3dMVM_validator_overview.html
It won’t be correct for the 3dLME testing, but it should give you a hint for what is wrong with your -dataTable specification.
It is probably the quotes or some spaces somewhere.

Can you post some of your -dataTable?

thanks, Justin