Re: [ROOT] Function busy flag cleared

From: Bob McElrath (mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 01:30:51 MEST


Rene Brun [Rene.Brun@cern.ch] wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> You are reading two branches only of your Tree. Probably, you have
> more branches. Do you have objects in those branches?

Yes, of course.  What does this have to do with this script?

> Anyhow, I suggest the following simplification and changes in
> your script.
>  - use a local TH1F. It will be automatically deleted when leaving 
>    the function

I want the histogram to be saved so I may plot it.  (Using a TBrowser)
The script you gave does not save the histograms.  In effect, all it
does is compute the integral.

>  - read only the two branches. Will be faster

I thought it was?

>  - Use the TH1::Integral instead of your loop. Your loop did not start
>    at bin 1.

Arg!  Bins start at 1!?!  I thought this was C++!?!  ;)

Why does my script crash in the first place?  I don't seem to be doing
any memory nastiness (as far as I can see), and I don't see why it
should crash...  Making the small modification to line 8 of your script:
    TH1F* hist = new TH1F("hist-" + name, name + " distribution", nbins, xmin, xmax);
Does not crash like my old one...

> void weighthist(TTree *t, TString name, int nbins, double xmin, double xmax)
> {
>     double val, weight;
>     double binwidth = (xmax-xmin)/nbins;
>     int nentries = (int)t->GetEntries();
>     int i;
>     
>     TH1F hist ("hist-" + name, name + " distribution", nbins, xmin, xmax);
>     TBranch *bval = t->GetBranch(name);
>     TBranch *bw   = t->GetBranch("weight");
>     bval->SetAddress(&val);
>     bw->SetAddress(&weight);
>     for(i=0;i<nentries;i++) {
>         bval->GetEntry(i);
>         bw->GetEntry(i);
>         hist->Fill(val,weight);
>     }   
>     cout << "Integral is: " << hist.Integral("width") << endl;
> }   
> 
> About your second question. To execute a CINT command in a macro,
> use gROOT->ProcessLine. Example
>   gROOT->ProcessLine(".L ~/.root/weighthist.C");
> 
> Rene Brun
> 
> 
> Bob McElrath wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having trouble running a couple of simple scripts to make hisograms
> > from TTree data:
> > 
> > // Draws a weighted histogram.  The tree you pass must have a branch named "weight"
> > // that will be applied.
> > void weighthist(TTree *t, TString name, int nbins, double xmin, double xmax)
> > {
> >     TH1F *hist;
> >     double val, weight;
> >     double binwidth = (xmax-xmin)/nbins;
> >     int nentries = (int)t->GetEntries();
> >     int i;
> >     double integral=0.0;
> > 
> >     if(hist = (TH1F*)gROOT->FindObject("hist-" + name)) delete hist;
> >     hist = new TH1F("hist-" + name, name + " distribution", nbins, xmin, xmax);
> >     if(!hist) {
> >         cout << "new failed for TH1F!" << endl;
> >         return;
> >     }
> >     t->SetBranchAddress(name, &val);
> >     t->SetBranchAddress("weight", &weight);
> >     for(i=0;i<nentries;i++) {
> >         t->GetEntry(i);
> >         hist->Fill(val,weight);
> >     }
> >     for(i=0;i<nbins;i++) {
> >         integral += binwidth*hist->GetBinContent(i);
> >     }
> >     cout << "Integral is: " << integral << endl;
> > }
> > 
> > I then run this script a couple of times:
> >     root [1] .L ~/.root/weighthist.C
> >     root [2]     TFile f("ppmumu.root", "UPDATE");
> >     root [3]     TTree *t = (TTree*)f.Get("ppgammazmumu");
> >     root [4]     TTree *st = (TTree*)f.Get("pphmumu");
> >     root [5]     weighthist(t, "q", 50, 50, 200);
> >     Integral is: 3.20927e+12
> >     root [6]     weighthist(t, "ptl", 50, 0, 200);
> >     Integral is: 4.28335e+12
> >     root [7]     weighthist(t, "costheta", 50, -1, 1);
> > 
> >      *** Break *** segmentation violation
> >      Root > Function weighthist() busy flag cleared
> > 
> > What does that mean?!?  And how do I fix it?  Note that the function ran
> > successfully *twice* before bombing.  Turning on debug (gDebug=1) does
> > not provide any more information than the above.  (about the segfault,
> > anyway)
> > 
> > Lastly, where can I put commands like .L ~/.root/weighthist.C so I can
> > load a set of often-used scripts at startup?  Scripts don't seem to like
> > dot commands (.L) or I'd put it in login.C or something.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -- Bob
> > 
> > Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu)
> > Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics
> > 
> >   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> >    Part 1.2   Type: application/pgp-signature
-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) 
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics





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