Remembering calculations?

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Remembering calculations? #4037

Open rdstern opened 7 years ago

rdstern commented 7 years ago

I just re-opened an Instat object. I found (to my pleasure) that the filters are all still there. But the calculations are not.
When I have made a few calculations they are remembered for the session. But I get the impression that they are just as a list and not associated with a particular data set?

Should they be like this, or should they become part of the Instat Object?

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

You mean in the calculator? At the moment they are only in the dialog, and so if you reset, possibly they clear as well? I think the list is associated with the data frame so possibly different lists for different data frames but its not something we store in the instat object at the moment, I thought it was more a dialog thing.

rdstern commented 7 years ago

Yes, I was questioning whether calculated columns should have a record of the calculation as part of the meta-data - as is done by Genstat, see below. So it would not only be remembered in the dialogue. Also (like filters) it would know which calculation was with which data frame.