Re: select cases based on multiple attributes

2011-07-06 Thread Erik Frebold
To get a syntax editor up in psppire (the gui) click . Now you can type in your list of commands and save or run it on the data. Of course in the command line version of pspp, you are already in the syntax "window". Hope that helps. pspp-users-requ...@gnu.org wrote: Re: select case

Re: select cases based on multiple attributes

2011-07-05 Thread Michel Boaventura
The John's syntax will actually delete the unselected cases. If you want to just ignore the unselecteds you may use the FILTER syntax: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/FILTER.html ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lis

RE: select cases based on multiple attributes

2011-07-05 Thread Jonathan Lowrey
rs@gnu.org Subject: Re: select cases based on multiple attributes Like you say, there isn't currently a dialog box for the select command. However all commands can be run from the syntax editor just as they can in spss. In your example, the following should work: select if area = "A"

Re: select cases based on multiple attributes

2011-07-05 Thread John Darrington
cases" tab? -Original Message- From: John Darrington [mailto:j...@darrington.wattle.id.au] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 1:05 PM To: Jonathan Lowrey Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org Subject: Re: select cases based on multiple attributes Like you say, there isn't curren

Re: select cases based on multiple attributes

2011-07-05 Thread John Darrington
Like you say, there isn't currently a dialog box for the select command. However all commands can be run from the syntax editor just as they can in spss. In your example, the following should work: select if area = "A" and species = "goat" or area = "B" and species = "goat". This assumes of co