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Re: Cleaning data - remove cases
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Cleaning data - remove cases |
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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:02:53 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
They ought to work, but they don't have that syntax. /KEEP and
/DROP take a list of variables, not a list of expressions or
conditions on variables.
John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> According to the manual, the /KEEP and /DROP subcommands to SAVE should also
> work.
>
> So if they don't, then please report it as a bug.
>
> J'
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:36:20PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Sorry folks - Select cases, unselected cases are deleted did the trick.
>
>
>
> Thx
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Rob
> Malpass
> Sent: 19 August 2011 14:19
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Cleaning data - remove cases
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
>
>
> Sorry if this is obvious but I have looked in the manuals and I can't
> find
> what I'm after.
>
>
>
> My other post referred to a huge dataset I'm playing with. Simple data
> cleaning led me to find around 800 cases with bad data. I can filter
> them
> but I can't find a command anywhere to drop them. It's been a few years
> since I used SPSS but the standard procedure was to do something like:
>
> SAVE OUTFILE="xyz"
>
> /KEEP filter_$="OK"
>
>
>
> There doesn't seem (please tell me if I'm wrong) to be a way to do this
> in
> PSPP.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
>
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