Thanks for the suggestion. I'll also upgrade to the latest version. On Thu Nov 13 2014 at 4:40:40 AM John Darrington < j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 08:21:37PM -0500, Robin Weber wrote: > Hello, > I am new to PSPP and open source OS, but a long time SPSS user. > I am using Trisquel 7 as the OS and the PSPP that was bundled with it > (version 7.9 I think). > > Hint: The 7.9 series is quite old, and was only intended as a test release > anyway. Use it at your own risk. I recommend upgrading to 0.8.4 > > I am having a hard time figuring out how to move variables from one > location in the data set to another. Seems like a simple task, but > somehow > I can't figure out the magic combination of clicks and scrolls. I > want to > eyeball the values in variable X next to the values in variable Y. > Unfortunately, variable X is currently next to Variable C. > In SPSS I would highlight the variable and drag it to the new > location. > > Unfortunately it is not possible to do this in PSPP with a drag and drop > action. > > One way however you can work around this, is to write to a new file, > specifying the > order of the variables, you want. > > For example, you can use a command, like > SAVE OUTFILE='my-new-file.sav' /KEEP Var8 Var9 Var 4 Var 7 .... > > This will create a new sav file with the variables in the order you > specify. > > > J' > > -- > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. > >
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