On Thu Nov 13 2014 at 4:40:40 AM John Darrington <
address@hidden> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 08:21:37PM -0500, Robin Weber wrote:
Hello,
I am new to PSPP and open source OS, but a long time SPSS user.
I am using Trisquel 7 as the OS and the PSPP that was bundled with it
(version 7.9 I think).
Hint: The 7.9 series is quite old, and was only intended as a test release
anyway. Use it at your own risk. I recommend upgrading to 0.8.4
I am having a hard time figuring out how to move variables from one
location in the data set to another. Seems like a simple task, but somehow
I can't figure out the magic combination of clicks and scrolls. I want to
eyeball the values in variable X next to the values in variable Y.
Unfortunately, variable X is currently next to Variable C.
In SPSS I would highlight the variable and drag it to the new location.
Unfortunately it is not possible to do this in PSPP with a drag and drop action.
One way however you can work around this, is to write to a new file, specifying the
order of the variables, you want.
For example, you can use a command, like
SAVE OUTFILE='my-new-file.sav' /KEEP Var8 Var9 Var 4 Var 7 ....
This will create a new sav file with the variables in the order you specify.
J'
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