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Re: re changing variable types
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: re changing variable types |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:50:56 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Maybe you need to add EXECUTE. on a line by itself afterward.
Otherwise, perhaps you should show us a bit of your string data?
Maybe it contains some character that makes it look non-numeric,
so that the conversion from string to number fails and always
yields system-missing.
Debora Randall <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks so much for responding. I tried what you said and it creates a new
> variable, but none of my data gets transferred over to it.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> On 16 Feb 2011, at 20:04, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> Debora Randall <address@hidden> writes:
>
> I am working on 0.7.5 PSPP version under X11 on a Mac OS 10.6.3.
>
> I have mistakenly encoded 6 of my variable types as string
>
> instead of numeric. When I go to change the variable to
>
> numeric, I lose my data. I need to be able to sum the
>
> variables, and it won't do that in string.
>
> I think you should be able to fix this with RECODE:
> RECODE oldvar (CONVERT) INTO newvar.
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org
>
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- re changing variable types, Debora Randall, 2011/02/16
- Re: re changing variable types, Ben Pfaff, 2011/02/16
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- Re: re changing variable types, Ben Pfaff, 2011/02/19
- Re: re changing variable types, Debora Randall, 2011/02/20
- Re: re changing variable types, John Darrington, 2011/02/20
- Re: re changing variable types, Debora Randall, 2011/02/26
- Re: re changing variable types, John Darrington, 2011/02/26
- Re: re changing variable types, Debora Randall, 2011/02/26