On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:58:42AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:04:25PM +0100, news wrote: > > > On 13/01/2015 19:05, John Darrington wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:28:49PM +0100, ftr wrote: > > > > A second question with the save translate command. > > The manual says (p.91) that missing can be recoded with the > command line > > /missing = recode. > > > > But into what ? > > > >My version of the manual says: > > > >"Specify MISSING=RECODE to output numeric user-missing values like > >system-missing values and string user-missing values as all spaces." > > I know but I don't understand. This is why I ask. > Does it mean that all kinds of missing types produce blanks ? > Or that user missing value are set to sysmiss ? > > I understand it to mean the latter. > > It seems to be saying that user-missing values will be recoded into > - in the case of numeric variables: system missing values; OR > - in the case of string variables: values containing all blanks. > > > I will check the code to make sure my understanding is correct. > Maybe we need to reword the manual to make this clearer.
The manual could definitely be clearer, either way. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
