I am delighted with what I can do with PSPP and the ease of use of the graphical user interface on the Mac, but periodically hit a glitch.
I have had no problem with individual variable recoding. I would, however, like to do a variable transformation of the form (If VARX = 1 and VARY =1, then let NEWVAR = 1), i.e. a simple boolean _expression_.
I have done this in SPSS years ago and can see how it would be done on the line entry version of PSPP, but is this sort of transformation possible in the Mac/GUI environment? I accept that installing a LINUX OS, etc. would be an obvious solution but my software skills are marginal and that installation path seems daunting.
My alternative would be to do the transformation externally in EXCEL, but I would obviously prefer to do the manipulations within PSPP. If I have to do it externally, can I import new variables to my existing .sav file or do I have to reconstruct a new file and redo existing recodes, etc. That would be clunky at best.
Please advise.
And again thanks to the community for this amazing resource.
Cheers,
Mark Levine
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