CTABLES

[Ron0z]

I’m using v22. I have to admit to being old school and prefer to work with syntax, writing command files, and I wish to continue that.

 

I have been using the dialogue boxes to build a table: Analyze > Tables > Custom Tables.  With the table prepared in this way I copy the code to my command file so that it is ready to use next time I run the script.  This works fine.  The code is editable, of course.  But my question is this, is there a way of reversing the process so that I can import or paste the table syntax into the SPSS Custom Tables dialogue?

 

Thank you, Ron

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[Jignesh Sutar]

Not that I am aware of. I would expect something like that to be very complicated as syntax can have many short hand abberviations, to then translate that from syntax form to GUI would be complicated.

I don't think you really want to do this anyway. CTABLES syntax is actually more intuitive that the GUI itself than you might think. I think it's just a case of learning directly the CTABLES syntax than feeling that GUI is the only/best way to specify required tables, because it is not.


In the same session of SPSS GUI typically remember what was last entered and that is presenved when you next visit that GUI.

[David Marso]

A categorical definite NO to that or any other commands for that matter.
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Ron0z wrote

I'm using v22. I have to admit to being old school and prefer to work with syntax, writing command files, and I wish to continue that.

I have been using the dialogue boxes to build a table: Analyze > Tables > Custom Tables.  With the table prepared in this way I copy the code to my command file so that it is ready to use next time I run the script.  This works fine.  The code is editable, of course.  But my question is this, is there a way of reversing the process so that I can import or paste the table syntax into the SPSS Custom Tables dialogue?

Thank you, Ron


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[Jon K Peck]

It would be great to be able to reverse syntax into the gui, but as others have said, this is not possible for a variety of reasons.  However, I want to point out that the syntax generated by the Custom Tables gui, while correct, is often not the most parsimonious possible and may be harder to read than something more direct.  The most common example of this is when you want to have the same set of statistics for several variables.  The gui might generate something like this.

  /TABLE jobcat BY jobtime [MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE] + salary [MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE] + salbegin [MEAN,
    MEDIAN, MODE]
but the statistics can be factored out, so a more parsimonious version would be
/TABLE jobcat BY (jobtime + salary + salbegin) [MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE]


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I’m using v22. I have to admit to being old school and prefer to work with syntax, writing command files, and I wish to continue that.
 
I have been using the dialogue boxes to build a table: Analyze > Tables > Custom Tables.  With the table prepared in this way I copy the code to my command file so that it is ready to use next time I run the script.  This works fine.  The code is editable, of course.  But my question is this, is there a way of reversing the process so that I can import or paste the table syntax into the SPSS Custom Tables dialogue?
 
Thank you, Ron

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