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Re: merging files and doing simple stats
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: merging files and doing simple stats |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:26:39 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
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
>
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