Re: Any way to change the maximum input data item no.?

From: mark.e.sale@GSK.com Subject: Re: [NMusers] Any way to change the maximum input data item no.? Date: Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 Two solutions, you can use continuation lines, as described in the guide: ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | CONT DATA ITEM | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ MEANING: Continuation (CONT) data item for PREDPP CONTEXT: $INPUT record and NONMEM data set USAGE: $INPUT ... CONT ... DISCUSSION: CONT labels PREDPP's continuation (CONT) data item. The continuation data item is optional. The CONT data item allows a PREDPP event record to span several data records. It is useful when more than 20 data items are needed to describe a single event. When the CONT data item is not defined on the $INPUT record, every event record consists of a single data record. Values are: 0 This is the last or only data record of the event record. 1 This and the succeeding record are both members of the same event record. MDV must be 1. PREDPP ignores records having CONT=1, except to pass them to the PK and ERROR routines as part of the complete event record. Values of PREDPP data items such as EVID, AMT, etc., are significant only on the final record of each event record, i.e., on records having CONT=0. With NM-TRAN abbreviated code, values on data records having CONT=1 are not available for use as right-hand quantities, i.e., abbreviated code cannot reference the values in data records other than the last of each event record. (It would be possible to reference such values using verbatim code, however). When NM-TRAN performs time translation or ii conversion (see date, time, ii), it does so only for the event records having CONT=0. REFERENCES: Guide VI, section II (p. 5), V.A (p. 55), V.I (p. 62) REFERENCES: Guide IV, section V.B (p. 61), V.C.5 (p. 70) Or, you can write additional data to a seperate file and read it in from verbatum code in $PK. If you want to read it in from a separate file, let me know I'll send the code. GO BUCKS (BS OSU, 1981, MD OSU, 1985) Mark Sale M.D. Global Director, Research Modeling and Simulation GlaxoSmithKline 919-483-1808 Mobile 919-522-6668