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Re: merging files and doing simple stats
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: merging files and doing simple stats |
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Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:01:30 -0800 |
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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
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Ben Pfaff
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