More significant figures possible in peak boundaries report?

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More significant figures possible in peak boundaries report? sstewart  2024-08-21 17:08
 

Hi team,
Thanks so much for all these new command line additions!

Is there a way to set number of sig figs in exported reports? My goal is to get higher precision peak boundaries via the command line. I can right click on the column in Document Grid and set to Full Precision, but this isn't sticky. Precision resets to 2 decimal places after I close Document Grid.

Right now, peak boundaries are truncated after two decimal places and this is enough (.06 seconds) to be a noticeable wiggle.

Judging from line 3358 in CommandLine.cs, it looks like number of sig figures might be persisted in viewInfo? I'm happy to submit a patch if you can give me a rough outline of what to do, or maybe I'm just missing something obvious in the GUI.

Thanks as always,
Sam

 
 
Nick Shulman responded:  2024-08-21 17:40
If you include the command-line argument "--report-invariant" then all of the numbers will be output with their full precision, and the column headings will be in English and will not have spaces in them.
"--report-invariant" produces a format which is intended to be easier for computer programs to handle and less easy for humans.

Similarly, when you are exporting a report from the Skyline user interface using the "File > Export > Report" menu item, if you choose "Invariant" as the Language then you will also get full precision numbers and English column headings with no spaces.

By the way, if you want Skyline to remember the formatting and apply it to the report by default then you can use the "Remember Layout" menu item in the pivot dropdown at the top of the Document Grid. If you check the "Make this the default layout" button then those formats will be applied when you export the report, although the numbers will always be full precision if you have specified "--report-invariant" because that takes precedence over formats from the Layout.

There is a little more information about remembering layouts in the Pivot Editor tip page:
https://skyline.ms/wiki/home/software/Skyline/page.view?name=PivotEditor

-- Nick