using BAR Distribution plotter in a macro script

Posted by Aryeh Weiss on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/using-BAR-Distribution-plotter-in-a-macro-script-tp5023555.html

I am trying to use the distribution plotter in a macro script. Here is
what the macro recorder provides me:

run("Distribution Plotter", "parameter=Mean tabulate=[Number of values]
automatic=[Specify manually below:] bins=50");

However, if I run this, is tells me "Automatic binning could not be
performed. Re-check settings or specify bins manually."

I looked at the source code here:
https://github.com/tferr/Scripts/blob/master/BAR/src/main/resources/scripts/BAR/Data_Analysis/Distribution_Plotter.ijm

and found that this message will happen with max-min is 0. This should
not be the case assuming I have a results table open, and it does not
happen when I run the script manually.

So i tried to use a local copy of the script (copied from github and
saved locally) so that i could add some print statements and try to
figure out what is happening.
The command I tried is
run("script:/home/amw/Desktop/83411LightMicroscopyData/studentDataSets/distPlot.ijm",
"parameter=Mean tabulate=[Number of values] automatic=[Specify manually
below:] bins=415");

However, this returns :

     ---
     <Error: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
http://wsr.imagej.net/download/Examples/Macro/script:/home/amw/Desktop/83411LightMicroscopyData/studentDataSets/distPlot.ijm>
in line 1:

     var ; initializeSciJavaParameters ( ) ; run (
"script:/home/amw/Desktop/83411LightMicroscopyData/studentDataSets/distPl...

So I have two questions:

1. How do I run the Distribution plotter from a macro?

2. How so I run any macro that is in a file from a macro?

I have a feeling that this second question maybe related to the use of
BARlib, which I have not succeeded in figuring out -- I am missing some
understanding of how that works. Maybe someone has a really simple
example of how to use that.

Thanks in advance\
--aryeh

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Aryeh Weiss
Faculty of Engineering
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan 52900 Israel

Ph:  972-3-5317638
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