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1. Opening, editing and saving data (File, Edit)

Getting the examples

The installation and subsequent run of Help>Get Examples V7 will have placed a number of sub-dire...

Primer file types

Whether the extensions *.pri, *.xls(x) etc. display, or not, is a function of your Windows set-up...

Compatibility of files

PRIMER 7 is fully forward-compatible from v6, and can input PRIMER 6, 5 and 4 data (*.pri and *.p...

Opening the PRIMER 7 desktop

Start the program by (double)-clicking on the desktop or task bar PRIMER 7 icon , giving the win...

Entering data directly

Most users will already have their data stored in rectangular form in some other software, e.g. a...

Labelling samples & variables

At this point only the default row (variables V1, V2, …) and column labels (samples S1, S2, …) ha...

Deleting & inserting rows/cols

In addition to attaching labels, the Edit menu allows a range of other edit functions on the data...

Undo data sheet edits

Occasionally, cell values are accidentally deleted or rows/columns added in unintended places but...

Moving & sorting rows/cols

Movement of rows or columns uses both highlighting and the cursor position. Rows (or columns) to ...

Cut, copying & pasting

The Edit>Cut and Edit>Copy operations send part of a worksheet (or its factors/indicators) to the...

Saving data, renaming & deleting

The data sheet can now be saved (as can any item created in the workspace) from the File menu. F...

Undo in the workspace

Another new feature to PRIMER 7 is the option Undo Workspace which back-tracks for the workspace ...

Saving, closing & opening a workspace

Typically, a single workspace would encompass one or more inter-connected data sets which are ana...

Setting the initial directory

It may sometimes be convenient to set the initial (default) directory to which PRIMER 7 opens eve...

Opening PRIMER files

File>Open>(File name: Ekofisk macrofauna counts.pri)>Open will read in the existing Ekofisk speci...

(Ekofisk oil-field fauna)

The abundance file Ekofisk macrofauna counts.pri is displayed within the PRIMER desktop. It shows...

Properties

Edit>Properties produces the Sample Data Properties dialog box, seen earlier, where information a...

Opening Excel files

Usually, rectangular data matrices of variables by samples, or samples by variables, will initial...

(Ekofisk abiotic data)

For the 39 sites around the Ekofisk oil-field, environmental data is available on concentrations ...

Wizard for input data

File>Open gives the same Open dialog box as previously but, importantly, the drop down menu on th...

Missing or zero values?

The final option is whether a blank cell in the Excel sheet should be interpreted as a Missing va...

(Tasmanian meiofauna)

This study concerns meiofaunal abundances from a two-way layout of samples on a sand-flat in Eagl...

Opening several files at once

The directory C:\Examples v7\Tasmania meiofauna contains the PRIMER 7 files of separate nematode ...

Opening the same file twice

PRIMER 7 will allow the same file to be opened into the workspace more than once, since the respo...

Text-format input files

The Tasmania meiofauna directory also contains three different text format versions of the copepo...

Factors in 3-column text format files

Associated with each record are often one or more factors which define the conditions under which...

Dialog for input of text format files

Read in the first of the above text files: File>Open>(Files of type: Text Files (*.txt, *.csv)) &...

Size of data worksheets

There are no fixed size limits for arrays within PRIMER 7, simply an overall limit determined by ...

Merging worksheets

For data collection reasons, it may still be the case that data from essentially the same array a...

Output data formats

Output format options, with File>Save Data As, are generally the reverse of input choices. The de...

Editing labels

Take File>Open>(Filename: Tasmania copepods v4.pm1)>Type•Species-sample to input this (archival) ...