CHANGING THE SIZE OF BUFFER 1?-->CHANGING THE LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS PER INDIVIDUAL RECORD for NONMEM VI

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*********************************************************************** INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHANGING THE LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS PER INDIVIDUAL RECORD NONMEM, PREDPP and NMTRAN need to be recompiled for changes to SIZES files to take affect. If NONMEM VI was installed using the CDSETUP6.BAT installation utility, here is an easy way to make this change. In the following, it is assumed that the NONMEM VI directory is c:\nmvi. If not, use the appropriate drive and directory. The steps are: 1. Change to c:\nmv and make the changes to SIZES (the parameter to changes is NO=250 to a larger number, e.g. 500) C NO: MAX NO. OF OBSERVATION RECORDS / INDIVIDUAL RECORD PARAMETER (NO=500) 2. Delete the previous object files from all subdirectories: del *.obj /s 3. Delete the previous nonmem library file and NM-TRAN executable: del nm\nonmem.lib del tr\nmtran.exe 4. Determine the setup commands used previously to install NONMEM: type setup.txt 5. Use CDSETUP6.BAT to recompile all routines. (Use here the same arguments that were used originally, if any.) SETUP.BAT will automatically skip all other steps. cdsetup6 a c nmvi df y
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________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Truc Thanh van Le Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NMusers] CHANGING THE SIZE OF BUFFER 1? Dear nmusers I'm currently working on a pharmacokinteic population analysis of a rather large data set in NONMEM version VI for my master degree. My data set consist currently of 9 patients that I follow over a time period of 2-4 months. This causes my data set to exceed 500 data records for some of the individuals. When I try to run it in NONMEM version VI, I get the following error message TOT NO. OF DATA RECS IN BUFFER 1 IS LESS THAN NO. OF DATA RECS IN INDIVIDUAL REC NO. 3 (IN INDIVIDUAL REC ORDERING) SEE INSTALLATION GUIDE I've found out that I need to increase the size of Buffer 1 from the default of 400, but I do not understand how to do so. The "SIZES" file in the folder "nmvi" apparently needs to be changed, but it says that I need to "RECOMPILE NONMEM IF ANY CONSTANT IN THIS SECTION IS CHANGED" I would be very greatful if anyone could explain to me in detail how this is done. With kind regards Truc Thanh van Le Master student Institute of Pharmacy University of Oslo Norway _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________