Re: Descriptives: Large Numbers and Variable Labels

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 07:03:07PM -0500, Eliana wrote:
     
     I am very new to PSPP, and need help getting some basic things to
     work.  I am excited to have found a free package I can run that is so
     basically simple to use.    I am running version 0.7.8 on Fedora 12 on
     the command line.

It's nice to know you find it usefull.
     
     My data looks like this:
     
     NAME,MATCHNAME,CHROMOSOME,START LOCATION,END 
LOCATION,CENTIMORGANS,MATCHING SNPS
     John Adams,Sam Jones,1,179653274,202477373,20.82,5100
     John Adams,George Smith,1,233181217,245329248,25.87,3742
     
     When I run DESCRIPTIVES, the MINIMUM and MAXIMUM are indicated in
     scientific notation rather than the precise values that I need for
     START and STOP.  I have not been able to figure out how to change that
     to the F9.0 output format I need.   Unless I missed it, the largest
     range size field for all operations seems to be F8.2 from what I see
     in the manual,  that is not working for my data set that requires F9.

At the top of your syntax file, write:

SET FORMAT F9.

(don't forget the .)  Note also that with the format F9  you have only 9
places for the data, so if you have a number like 1234567890 PSPP will go
back to scientific notation to display that.  So you might want to set it
to F14 or something just to be sure.

     I also have not found a way to get variable labels into the descriptives 
output.
     
     Here is what I would like that creates error messages wherever I put
     it.  I have tried with and without the slash before NAME1.
     
       VARIABLE LABELS
                  /NAME1 'PRIMARY KIT'
                  /NAME2 'MATCH NAME'

     
     Where do Variable Labels statements go?  I have not been able to find
     an example anywhere.

It works for me (the first NAME*) should not have a /  but your example above
doesn't have a terminating .  That is important.
     
J'

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