So how on earth would I enter the syntax to make this modification? Remember that I am not a programmer. The last programming I did was 30 years ago in Fortran. Maybe I need to give up and enter each case by hand? G
On 9 February 2011 15:26, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > Are you asking whether there is a way to do this through the GUI, > without entering syntax? No, there is not, yet. > > Gordon Handford <agordonhandf...@gmail.com> 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 <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > Gordon Handford <agordonhandf...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > -- > Ben Pfaff > http://benpfaff.org >
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