Clearly, the code can change without anyone knowing!

For this reason, and others, I try to remember to do it manually and to check.  In cases of pseudo-symmetry, for example P21 with a 90.2 deg beta angle and high tNCS, the software may or may not decide it should pick free flags in the P222 setting, but it probably "should".

To do it manually, you want to re-index to the higher space group using "reindex"
Then pick your free flags
Use "cad" with "outlim" feature to symmetry-expand the data
Use "cad" again to change the space group back
One final run through "cad" to clean things up and make sure you have the right asymmetric unit.

That's what I do, anyway,

-James Holton
MAD Scientist

On 8/31/2021 3:04 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote:
Espec. Jan & Kay,

I had better check this out - ville wrote the code I believe, and I have never actually checked the distribution!
Cheers Eleanor

On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 08:01, Jan Dohnalek <dohnalek...@gmail.com <mailto:dohnalek...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    This is good to know indeed.
    Will improve my teaching now, I also did not know this is now done
    automatically. Thanks for pointing it out.

    Jan


    On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 9:44 PM Kay Diederichs
    <kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de
    <mailto:kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de>> wrote:

        Dear Eleanor,

        Thanks for pointing out that CCP4 FreeRflag selects the test
        set in the highest possible symmetry for the crystal class! I
        didn't know that.

        The following sentences (which are somewhat difficult to
        understand for me) in
        https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/freerflag.html
        <https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/freerflag.html> appear to
        document that:
        "The FreeR_flag is randomly and uniformly distributed
        reflexion-by-reflexion, but, additionally, if the keyword
        NOSYM is not set, all reflections that are equivalent by the
        symmetry of the point group of the twin lattice (assuming the
        data is twinned), obtain the same flag. This includes both the
        possibility of merohedral and pseudomerohedral twinning. In
        the latter case, the obliquity parameter can be set using the
        keyword OBL."

        I wonder since which CCP4 version (or date) this is the
        default behaviour.

        best wishes,
        Kay

        On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:28:23 +0100, Eleanor Dodson
        <eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk <mailto:eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk>>
        wrote:

        >Back to FreeR factors - Phenix, and I believe FreeRflag now
        select FreeRs
        >in the highest possible symmetry for the crystal class - eh
        P6/mmm for a
        >trigonal crystal, and expand the set to fill the actual space
        group. This
        >means the Free R assignment is suitable if later the crystal
        symmetry is
        >reassigned. But this was not always done in the past so if
        you are trying
        >to reuse free/work assignments from an old project there are
        possibilities
        >of not getting this. Maybe the best solution is to just
        generate a new Free
        >R set ?
        >Eleanor
        >
        ...

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