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Coordinate Data Format Examples
The following examples will use the array object pop[c,s,t] which contains population data for North America by country, sex, and time where
c is the set country composed of: Canada, US, Mexico
s is the set sex composed of: male, female
t is the sequence time from 2000 to 2004
allCoord=off
If the allCoord parameter is set to off, data from the rightmost index are placed in columns. The import file may appear as follows:
!Years 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Canada female 12 14 16 18 20 US male 100 120 140 160 180 Mexico female 20 22 24 26 28 Canada male 10 12 14 16 18
Note that with coordinate format, there does not need to be data for every member of the set and the rows can be in any order. (In the above example, US female and Mexico male are not in the file.) However, the row labels in the import file must match the element names of the set. TOOL matches the labels to the element names to determine where to put the data in the object array.
allCoord=on
If the allCoord parameter is set to on, all data are in a single column. The import file may appear as follows:
Canada female 2000 12 Canada female 2001 14 Canada female 2002 16 Canada female 2003 18 Canada female 2004 20 US male 2000 100 US male 2001 120 US male 2002 140 US male 2003 160 US male 2004 180 Mexico female 2000 20 Mexico female 2001 22 Mexico female 2002 24 Mexico female 2003 26 Mexico female 2004 28 Canada male 2000 10 Canada male 2001 12 Canada male 2002 14 Canada male 2003 16 Canada male 2004 18
