Command Line
Generating .as template from datafile headings
Normally, the name of a .as command file is specified on the command line.
If a .as file does not exist and a file with file extension
.asd,
.csv,
.dat,
.gsh,
.txt or
.xls
is specified, ASReml assumes the data file has
field labels in the first row and generates a .as file template.
First, it seeks to convert the .gsh (Genstat) or
.xls (Excel) file
to .csv format using
the ASRemload.dll utility provided by VSN.
In generating the .as template, ASReml takes the first line of
the .csv (or other) file as providing column headings,
and generates field
definition lines from them.
If some labels
have ! appended, these
are defined as factors, otherwise ASReml attempts to identify
factors from the field contents.
The template needs further
editing before it is ready to run but does have the field names
copied across.
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