> On Saturday, 8 March 2014 11:08 AM, Mark Levine wrote:
> > Hi Som,
> Thanks for pointing me to this antidote to my ignorance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
glad that it works.
we all learn something new everyday; eg this code provided by john about
creating new variable -
COMPUTE newvar = (V
Hi Som,
BRILLIANT!!! Thank you, thank you.
I hadn’t realized where file -> New -> Syntax would take me, right to the
ability to enter commands. That’s exactly what I needed, opens up all the
goodies that are discussed in the documentation.
I must admit that I have scanned the manual many time
hi Mark,
>On Mar 7, 2014, at 2:05 AM, John Darrington
>wrote:
>There are a number of ways this could be achieved (for example you could use
>RECODE ... INTO ) but in my opinion, the simplest way is:
>
>COMPUTE newvar = (VARX = 1) AND (VARY=1).
>> There is no option as far as I have found to e
On 07/03/2014 08:05, John Darrington wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:19:09PM -0500, Mark Levine wrote:
I have had no problem with individual variable recoding. I would,
however, like to do a variable transformation of the form (If VARX = 1 and VARY
=1, then let NEWVAR = 1), i.e. a simp
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:19:09PM -0500, Mark Levine wrote:
I have had no problem with individual variable recoding. I would, however,
like to do a variable transformation of the form (If VARX = 1 and VARY =1, then
let NEWVAR = 1), i.e. a simple boolean expression.
There are a numb