Adding individual internal standards

aruefer

How do you paste specific internal standard values in 3D Trace Elements DRS from an another spreadsheet? I've watched the tutorial where you were able to copy and paste in data this way, but I am not able to do this. If I try to select a particular value, it will highlight the entire row, so I then have to click "value" at the top of the list, type in the value for that particular spot, accept, and then repeat for every single analysis.

Joe

aruefer

You can paste values by selecting the rows you want and then pressing control (or command on Mac) + v. Pasting into the internal standards table will paste into the values column of the selected rows.

It seems when you copy from Excel it adds in a blank line at the end of the copied text which causes an error when pasting. If you bring up the python console in iolite, you'll probably see "ValueError: could not convert string to float" or similar. I've fixed this now for future releases, but in the meantime, you could paste the copied text into a plain text editor and then copy just the values from that without the blank line at the end.

All the best,

aruefer

Hi Joe,
Thanks for your help. That's good to know about copying and pasting from Excel directly.
I am still having issues because I'm not able to select a particular column of rows in Iolite. If I click to select the internal standard value for a particular group, it highlights the entire row. When I try to paste here (from a plain text editor), nothing happens. Do I need to use the import IS values function instead?

-Anna

Joe

aruefer

You do not need to select a particular column. Just select the rows you want to paste into and the column of data you've copied from Excel (or elsewhere) should be pasted into the IS values column. If it isn't, would you mind having a look at the python console to see what the error is? Are you running iolite on a Windows PC or Mac?

You can try using the import IS values function. This requires your IS data in a particular format. See the trace elements example in the documentation: https://iolite.xyz/docs/tutorials/traceelements.html. You can download the example data files to see the expected format.

All the best,

aruefer

I'm running Iolite on a Windows PC. It's Version v4.8.2. The software has been crashing every time I try to crunch data so I'll have to check on this and get back to you once that's resolved. As far as I could tell previously when I attempted to copy and paste, there wasn't any kind of error-- it just didn't respond/nothing happened. But I'll check the script and report back soon hopefully.

Joe

aruefer

It is possible there is something particular to your session that is causing a problem for the DRS. If you can, please share the io4 file with iolite support and we'll have a look.

All the best,