Re: merging files and doing simple stats

[pfaffben]

If you want instructions for entering syntax, then we can give you some.
But the tone that I pick up from your email indicates that you are not
really interested.

Quoting Gordon Handford <address@hidden>:

> So how on earth would I enter the syntax to make this modification?
> Remember that I am not a programmer.  The last programming I did
was 30
> years ago in Fortran.  Maybe I need to give up and enter each case
by hand?
> G
>
> On 9 February 2011 15:26, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Are you asking whether there is a way to do this through the GUI,
> > without entering syntax?  No, there is not, yet.
> >
> > Gordon Handford <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Hi Ben, and thank you for the instant response!
> > >
> > > I have no experience with changing the coding.  Is there a way
I can
> > instruct
> > > PSPP using the commands that turn up in the header section to
"Add
> > Files"?
> > > Cheers, Gordon.
> > >
> > > On 9 February 2011 15:01, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Gordon Handford <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > >     > New to PSPP (0.7.5 version run on Windows 7 home
premium).  Want to
> > >     merge
> > >     > four files and run simple stats comparing portions of
the files
> > that
> > >     have
> > >     > overlapping fields.  I have built one file with about
250
> > variables,
> > >     all
> > >     > named, with 94 cases each from one of four versions of
a survey.
> > Need
> > >     to
> > >     > merge data from four online copies of the same four
surveys.  I
> > have
> > >     cleaned
> > >     > up the online versions so they align with the variables
in the PSPP
> > >     file,
> > >     > have created CSV files, can successfully import those
CSV files to
> > >     PSPP.  But
> > >     > when I try to "merge" (add a file to the existing
PSPP  by
> > "importing"
> > >     the
> > >     > imported file simply replaces the original data.  How
can I build
> > the
> > >     omnibus
> > >     > file that will allow comparisons between identical
components of
> > the
> > >     four
> > >     > versions?
> > >
> > >     You probably want one of these commands documented in the
user
> > >     manual:
> > >           
http://pspp.benpfaff.org/~blp/pspp-master/20110208030506/
> > >   
 user-manual/html_node/Combining-Data-Files.html#Combining-Data-Files
> > >     --
> > >     Ben Pfaff
> > >     http://benpfaff.org
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Ben Pfaff
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