File > New > Syntax opens a new syntax window. You can also create a file using any text editor and save the file with the extension .SPS and open the file with File > Open. If you do this, note that some editors (e.g., Notepad) make it difficult to choose a file extension for a text file (Notepad always appends a '.TXT') and by default Windows hides the file's extension.
-Alan On 2/19/2020 11:34 AM, Domingo J Rubira López wrote: > Sorry Alan, where do I write the sintax? I have seen the commands, but > I don’t know where to write them. How can I get this page or sheet? > > Thanks > > El El mié, 19 feb 2020 a las 15:56, Alan Mead <am...@alanmead.org > <mailto:am...@alanmead.org>> escribió: > > I don't know if PSPP (or SPSS) can do Pareto Diagrams. So, maybe > PSPP isn't the tool you need. > > But PSPP has (I think) the same capabilities of combining data as > SPSS, but I think you do need to use syntax. This page describes > the commands to combine data files. There's a command to stack > files/add cases (ADD FILES) and a command to merge files/add > variables (MATCH FILES). If you click on the link for your choice > at the bottom, you'll see the syntax. > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/Combining-Data-Files.html#Combining-Data-Files > > You would click "New Syntax" and type the commands there and then > click run, but if you describe what you're trying to do, we can > give you additional advice. For example, you'll need to sort on > the matching variable(s). > > If I had files 'test1.sav' and 'test2.sav' with matching variable > 'index' I would type: > > * sort file 1 by match variable. > get /file='test1.sav'. > sort cases by index. > save /outfile'test1.sav'. > > * sort file 2 by match variable. > get /file='test2.sav'. > sort cases by index. > save /outfile'test2.sav'. > > match files file='test1.sav' > /file='test2.sav' > /by index > /map. > execute. > > The number one pain I experience in combining data (using PSS or > PSPP) is when the same variable has a different data type across > files. This is extremely common with string variables. Number two > is duplicate identifiers. > > -Alan > > > On 2/19/2020 3:55 AM, Domingo J Rubira López wrote: >> Sorry for this mail. I am sure I am not sending to the right place nor in >> the right way. >> >> Recently I have started to use PSPP in my Windows System and I can't do >> things I am sure they can be done. Things as Pareto Diagram or combining >> data files. >> >> In manual I can see them, but I don't really know how to do it or where I >> must write >> orders. >> >> I would be very pleasant if any of you can help me. >> >> Thank you a lot and sorry again. > > -- > > Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. > President, Talent Algorithms Inc. > > science + technology = better workers > > http://www.alanmead.org > > > Mutiny Acts are needed only by officers who command without > authority. Divine right needs no whip. > > -- Shaw, from "Maxims for Revolutionists" > > -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers http://www.alanmead.org Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. -- Richard Feynman
