"Copy series operator does not deliver series to inner operators"

awchisholm

Hello all,

I cannot get the "Copy Series Operator" to behave. In the attached process I am expecting to be able to extract something from the value series but whatever I do I get an error suggesting that there is no data being delivered to the inner operator within the copy series operator.

What am I doing wrong?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<process version="5.0">
  <context>
    <input/>
    <output/>
    <macros/>
  </context>
  <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="5.0.11" expanded="true" name="Process">
    <process expanded="true" height="611" width="927">
      <operator activated="true" class="generate_data" compatibility="5.0.11" expanded="true" height="60" name="Generate Data" width="90" x="45" y="75">
        <parameter key="target_function" value="simple sinus"/>
        <parameter key="number_examples" value="1000"/>
        <parameter key="number_of_attributes" value="1"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="sort" compatibility="5.0.11" expanded="true" height="76" name="Sort" width="90" x="45" y="165">
        <parameter key="attribute_name" value="att1"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="select_attributes" compatibility="5.0.11" expanded="true" height="76" name="Select Attributes" width="90" x="45" y="255">
        <parameter key="attribute_filter_type" value="subset"/>
        <parameter key="attributes" value="att2|att1"/>
        <parameter key="invert_selection" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="include_special_attributes" value="true"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="transpose" compatibility="5.0.11" expanded="true" height="76" name="Transpose" width="90" x="45" y="345"/>
      <operator activated="true" class="series:process_series" compatibility="5.0.2" expanded="true" height="76" name="Process Series" width="90" x="313" y="255">
        <parameter key="start_attribute" value="att_1"/>
        <parameter key="end_attribute" value="att_1000"/>
        <process expanded="true" height="458" width="945">
          <operator activated="true" class="series:copy_series" compatibility="5.0.2" expanded="true" height="60" name="Copy Series (2)" width="90" x="313" y="30">
            <parameter key="keep_only_last" value="false"/>
            <process expanded="true" height="637" width="945">
              <operator activated="true" class="series:extract_average" compatibility="5.0.2" expanded="true" height="60" name="Extract Average (3)" width="90" x="427" y="30"/>
              <connect from_port="series 1" to_op="Extract Average (3)" to_port="series"/>
              <connect from_op="Extract Average (3)" from_port="series" to_port="series 1"/>
              <portSpacing port="source_series 1" spacing="0"/>
              <portSpacing port="source_series 2" spacing="0"/>
              <portSpacing port="sink_series 1" spacing="0"/>
              <portSpacing port="sink_series 2" spacing="0"/>
            </process>
          </operator>
          <connect from_port="series" to_op="Copy Series (2)" to_port="series"/>
          <connect from_op="Copy Series (2)" from_port="series" to_port="series"/>
          <portSpacing port="source_series" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
          <portSpacing port="sink_series" spacing="0"/>
        </process>
      </operator>
      <connect from_op="Generate Data" from_port="output" to_op="Sort" to_port="example set input"/>
      <connect from_op="Sort" from_port="example set output" to_op="Select Attributes" to_port="example set input"/>
      <connect from_op="Select Attributes" from_port="example set output" to_op="Transpose" to_port="example set input"/>
      <connect from_op="Transpose" from_port="example set output" to_op="Process Series" to_port="example set"/>
      <connect from_op="Process Series" from_port="example set" to_port="result 1"/>
      <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
    </process>
  </operator>
</process>

regards

Andrew

land

Hi Andrew,
sorry for that. This operator has been forgotten to be adapted to RapidMiner 5 and isn't working at all.

We will have to correct this in a future release.

Greetings,
  Sebastian

awchisholm

Hello

Just checking - the "copy series operator" seems to have gone away in the latest version. Has it gone for good or might it return in the future?

regards

Andrew

land

Hi Andrew,
this operator died painfully It's simply not necessary anymore: You can use the standard multiplier way to copy time series.
This old fashioned operator copied the data first and then applied different operators in it's subprocesses. The same can now be reached using a standard multiply and connecting it's output ports appropriate.
That's why it wasn't converted in the first place.

Greetings,
Sebastian