Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-11 Thread pfaffben
If you want instructions for entering syntax, then we can give you some. But the tone that I pick up from your email indicates that you are not really interested. Quoting Gordon Handford : So how on earth would I enter the syntax to make this modification? Remember that I am not a programmer. 

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-10 Thread Gordon Handford
Hello Ben, You read the "tone" accurately. I got a little panicked when I realized what I would need to do to use PSPP, and of course I'm on a tight deadline that didn't figure in this adaptation of PSPP to meet my needs. I tried doing some analyses and found that some of the analyses I need aren

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-10 Thread Gordon Handford
Hi Ben, and thank you for the instant response! I have no experience with changing the coding. Is there a way I can instruct PSPP using the commands that turn up in the header section to "Add Files"? Cheers, Gordon. On 9 February 2011 15:01, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Gordon Handford writes: > > > Ne

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Gordon Handford
So how on earth would I enter the syntax to make this modification? Remember that I am not a programmer. The last programming I did was 30 years ago in Fortran. Maybe I need to give up and enter each case by hand? G On 9 February 2011 15:26, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Are you asking whether there is a

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Are you asking whether there is a way to do this through the GUI, without entering syntax? No, there is not, yet. Gordon Handford writes: > Hi Ben, and thank you for the instant response!  > > I have no experience with changing the coding.  Is there a way I can instruct > PSPP using the command

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Gordon Handford writes: > New to PSPP (0.7.5 version run on Windows 7 home premium).  Want to merge > four files and run simple stats comparing portions of the files that have > overlapping fields.  I have built one file with about 250 variables, all > named, with 94 cases each from one of four v

merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Gordon Handford
Hello, New to PSPP (0.7.5 version run on Windows 7 home premium). Want to merge four files and run simple stats comparing portions of the files that have overlapping fields. I have built one file with about 250 variables, all named, with 94 cases each from one of four versions of a survey. Need