require "linger-process.rb"
# A new Experiment object takes four arguments, two of which are required:
# (1) required, Array that specifies the names of the experiment(s)
# (2) required, Hash that specifies how the conditions should be expanded
# (3) optional, String that specifies the directory containing the Linger data,
# defaults to "./data/"
# (4) optional, Array of symbols that specifies what columns should be output,
# defaults to
# [:words, :word_lengths, :word_positions, :regions, :experiment, :subject,
# :item, :condition, :sentence_number, :list_position, :reading_times,
# :log_reading_times, :accuracy]
experiment_names = ["principB", "principC"]
# Here, for example, the condition coded as TNN in the raw data is
# expanded out to the factors RC, N, and U. You can specify as many
# conditions and factors as necessary.
factors = { "TNN" => %w(RC N U),
"TNM" => %w(RC M U),
"QNN" => %w(HN N U),
"QMN" => %w(HN M G)}
data_directory = "./example-input-data/"
columns = [:experiment, :subject, :item, :condition, :factors, :regions,
:reading_times, :log_reading_times, :words, :word_lengths,
:word_positions, :list_position, :accuracy]
experiment = Experiment.new(experiment_names, factors, :dir => data_directory, :columns => columns)
# All processing is done within the object. There are two
# options for outputting the processed data. You can either output
# it to STD_OUT (to check that everything went smoothly), or you can
# save it to a file.
#puts experiment # to STDOUT
experiment.to_file("example-output-data.txt") # to a file called data.txt
