Using profile command from lingpy

lingpy-profile.md

Using the profile command from the lingpy package.

This gist provides my personal note and experience (as a non-Python [but a long-term R] user) in trying to provide clts-conformant initial orthography profile from a cldf dataset using the profile command as part of the lingpy Python package.

Context

• The tutorial to generate initial orthography profile (after generating a valid cldf dataset under the cldf directory) is available here
• I have created a valid cldf dataset for Enggano Holle List using R

Experiences

• I have created a Python virtual environment in the directory for the Enggano Holle List in this line of code
• I have activated this virtual environment with this code
• For this orthography work, I re-installed pylexibank, pycldf, cldfbench (with pip install cldfbench[clts]) in that virtual environment

Error

• Then, I run the initial creation of orthography python code provided here
• HOWEVER it produces an error that the CLTS configuration in cldf cannot be found

Solution

• Ensure that we intially clone the CLTS data using the following command cldfbench catconfig. There will be three options of catalogues to be cloned: Glottolog, Concepticon and CLTS. For the first two, I skipped by typing "N", but typing "y" for the CLTS.
• After the previous step, running the orthography profile creation command here works!