You can use the ERASE command to delete any file, but if you only want to use the aggregated results in the current session, you can avoid creating an external file, which you then later have to erase, by using datasets, as in:
DATASET DECLARE MINMAX.
AGGREGATE OUTFILE 'MINMAX'
/ PRESORTED
/ BREAK = GP
/ MEAN = MEAN(VALUE) .
DATASET ACTIVATE MINMAX.
The dataset will go away when you end the session unless you explicitly save it.
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Subject: Delete file using Syntax command
Hello,
Is it possible to delete a file using syntax? I'm sure I have read somewhere
that it was possible but I can't track back where I read this.
So for example the MINMAX dataset created from the syntax below would be
saved under C:\Program Files\SPSS or from the working folder where the
syntax is saved.
Thanks
Jignesh
DATA LIST FREE / VALUE .
BEGIN DATA
2 1 3 4 5 6 1 3 6 5 3 6 7 2 1 5 3 7 5 3 7 6 2 1 5 3 6 7 5 2 1 6 7 3 5 6
7 1 2 5 3 6 7 1 2 5 3 6 7 5 6 7 6 7 5 1 2 3 5 2 6 7 1 5 3 6 7 2 1 5 3 6 7
2 1 5 3 7 6 2 1 5 3 7 6 1 2 5 3 7 2 1 5 3 5 2 1 3 5 7 6 5 7 6 2 7 6 5
END DATA .
COMPUTE GP = TRUNC (UNIFORM(2) ) .
SORT CASES BY GP .
LIST.
AGGREGATE OUTFILE 'MINMAX'
/ PRESORTED
/ BREAK = GP
/ MEAN = MEAN(VALUE) .
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