Glad to hear you do - now I know what Watson feels like :-)
Keep it up!
frans
On 02/22/2016 05:14 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Thanks! I think I understand now.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:33 PM, <fhouwel...@email.it
<mailto:fhouwel...@email.it>> wrote:
DATASET NAME file1.
GET 'aggr7.sav'.
DATASET DISPLAY.
Dataset Display
Datasets
| ------------ |
| (unnamed)(a) |
| ------------ |
a Active dataset
----- Messaggio originale -----
Da: "Ben Pfaff" <b...@cs.stanford.edu <mailto:b...@cs.stanford.edu>>
A: "Frans Houweling" <fhouwel...@email.it
<mailto:fhouwel...@email.it>>
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org <mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>
Inviato: Lunedì, 22 febbraio 2016 2:05:34
Oggetto: Re: dataset experiments
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:47:16PM +0100, Frans Houweling wrote:
> >Experiment #1 ------------- Start up SPSS. Then, before you
define any
> >variables or open any data files, Run a DATASET NAME command,
like this:
> >DATASET NAME myfile. Does SPSS accept this or give an error
and, if it
> >gives an error, what is it?
> SPSS 14 accepts this and displays "Untitled1 [myfile]" in the
data editor.
OK, I did not expect that. I had the impression that a dataset had to
have some content before it really existed and could be named.
> >Experiment #2 ------------- Start up SPSS. Then, before you do
anything
> >else, run a syntax file like this:
> >GET 'file1.sav'.
> >DATASET NAME file1.
> >DATASET DISPLAY.
> >GET 'file2.sav'.
> >DATASET DISPLAY.
>
> GET 'aggr7.sav'.
> DATASET NAME file1.
> DATASET display.
>
> Dataset Display
>
> Datasets
> | -------- |
> | file1(a) |
> | -------- |
> a Active dataset
>
> GET 'aggr8.sav'.
> DATASET DISPLAY.
>
> Dataset Display
>
> Datasets
> | ------------ |
> | file1 |
> | ------------ |
> | (unnamed)(a) |
> | ------------ |
> a Active dataset
OK, experiment #2 indicates that doing a GET creates a new unnamed
dataset, instead of replacing the current dataset. The documentation
sort of implies that, but it is not very clear.
How about experiment #3, then, to clarify what happens to an empty
dataset when GET executes, like this:
Experiment #3
-------------
Start up SPSS. Then, before you do anything else, run a syntax
file like
this:
DATASET NAME file1.
GET 'file1.sav'.
DATASET DISPLAY.
Thanks again!
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