interface too slow and empty xls sheet when downloading

[Christophe Pallier]

Dear all,

A user has reported slowdowns and broken connections from the openlexicon app.:

" In the time it takes to select a language, wait for the display to update and paste an expression into the filter box, the display reverts to greyed out and the above message appears."

and:

"I have tried at various times of the day over the last week or so. Occasionally I get far enough to get the result I want, but more often than not I get an empty spreadsheet. I have just tried again without success. The language is Dutch and the filter is '^[a-zàâæçéèêëîïôœùûüÿ]{7}$', to obtain a 7 character list of words. The language does not seem to make any difference."

Anybody else experiencing the same things?

[Christophe Pallier]

By the way, when there is an issue with the web interface, it is always possible (if one knows how to use R or Python), to perform  searches directly. For example:

    # R code to filters 7 long words from SUBTLEXus and save them in 'sevencharwords.csv'

    subtlexus = read.csv('http://www.lexique.org/databases/SUBTLEX-US/SUBTLEXus74286wordstextversion.tsv', sep='\t', as.is=TRUE) 
    write.csv(subset(subtlexus, nchar(subtlexus$Word)==7), 'sevencharwords.csv')

Other examples (in R or Python) are available at <https://github.com/chrplr/openlexicon/tree/master/scripts>