prepopulation of variables

[mhuso]

I did not enter "DateFound" How did GenEst know to populate with this variable? Is that desirable?

[mhuso]

Using CO_cleared

[ddalthorp]

That is the only plausible "date found" column in your data set.

[mhuso]

What happens if there are two? No auto=completion?

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That is the only plausible column in your data set.

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[ddalthorp]

I don't know....If there are two possibilities, I presume there will be two choices in the drop down menu.

On the command line side, you would be entering args in the estM function, including a dateFound var. If dateFound = NULL, the function will search for plausible candidates. If exactly one is found, that becomes the dateFound column; otherwise, an error is thrown and the user is forced to provide one.

[juniperlsimonis]

correct. and now if there are multiple plausible columns it will not select one by default