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 >
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