Re: Simple Copy/Paste beteen files?

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:45:04PM -0400, Brian Carson wrote:
     John,
     
     I know see what you mean, I need to write syntax to do the merge. I was
     assuming it would be in the drop downs somewhere, like in SPSS. Gonna
     have to read the manual to make sense on how to do it.

There's a very good tutorial at  
http://www.ats.uda.edu/stat/spss/modules/merge.htm
All of the examples should work.  If you find any that don't then please report 
it 
as a bug.
     
     As for the copy/paste, even in the 0.7.5-g70514b compile for Windows, I
     can not copy/paste 100%. I can only do one cell at a time. I need to
     copy a whole column, of 516 records, but when I do that, it pastes them
     all into which ever cell I click on in the other file. Even if I
     highlight multiple cells, it will still just paste it into the first
     one. 

Perhaps this is a Windows specific problem.  It works fine on GNU/Linux.
J'
     
     -----Original Message-----
     From: John Darrington [mailto:address@hidden 
     Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:46 AM
     To: Brian Carson
     Cc: address@hidden
     Subject: Re: Simple Copy/Paste beteen files?
     
     The merge command is called MATCH FILES and so far as I know is
     identical to SPSS.
     See the manual for details.
     
     
     Likewise, a copy/paste should also work.  However since PSPP doesn't
     currently support multiple datasets, it would be necessary to start two
     instances of PSPP and copy between them.
     
     
     On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:22:47AM -0400, Brian Carson wrote:
          Hello,
          
          I am trying to merge data from one .sav into another. In SPSS I
     could do
          the Merge utility and everything worked fine. I do not see that
     here. So
          I tried doing a simple copy/paste, but that too does not work...
          
          Any other suggestion on how I can get variable 1 from file A to
     variable
          1 file B?
          
          Thanks
          
          Brian Carson
          
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