Errror message

[jimjohn]

can someone plz help me with this:

i just opened my spss dataset this morning and i tried to sort by variables (this is a normal thing that i usually do to further analyze my data). but everytime i try to sort i get the following error:

Error #1400 Command name: SORT CASES BY
Input Error when reading a case
This command not executed

Any changes made to the working file since 29-JAN-2008 18:10:39 have been lost.

does anyone have an idea why this is happening? does it have something to do with what i was doing yesterday? all i was doing was creating new variables by transform -> compute variable. then i was using split file and aggregate. thanks.

[jimjohn]

i was using recode variable too. and i recoded the same variable into two different new variables. could this be a reason why?

jimjohn wrote

can someone plz help me with this:

i just opened my spss dataset this morning and i tried to sort by variables (this is a normal thing that i usually do to further analyze my data). but everytime i try to sort i get the following error:

Error #1400 Command name: SORT CASES BY
Input Error when reading a case
This command not executed

Any changes made to the working file since 29-JAN-2008 18:10:39 have been lost.

does anyone have an idea why this is happening? does it have something to do with what i was doing yesterday? all i was doing was creating new variables by transform -> compute variable. then i was using split file and aggregate. thanks.

[ViAnn Beadle]

How are your data stored? As an spss data file or something else? Can you
replicate this error? When you open your data file, does everything look OK
within the data editor.


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jimjohn
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Subject: Re: Errror message

i was using recode variable too. and i recoded the same variable into two
different new variables. could this be a reason why?



jimjohn wrote:

>
> can someone plz help me with this:
>
> i just opened my spss dataset this morning and i tried to sort by
> variables (this is a normal thing that i usually do to further analyze my
> data). but everytime i try to sort i get the following error:
>
> Error #1400 Command name: SORT CASES BY
> Input Error when reading a case
> This command not executed
>
> Any changes made to the working file since 29-JAN-2008 18:10:39 have been
> lost.
>
> does anyone have an idea why this is happening? does it have something to
> do with what i was doing yesterday? all i was doing was creating new
> variables by transform -> compute variable. then i was using split file
> and aggregate. thanks.
>
>

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[jimjohn]

Ok thx. I really dont know waht else to say though, as I am a beginner with SPSS. Basically, theres a foxpro database that i receive my data from. i then convert this database to a delimited text file and then open that in spss (since spss doesnt seem to open dbf files for me properly, but it does well with text files) and save it as a spss data file. its a very big file, about 600,000 records. all i did yesterday that i had never done before was first i used the aggregate function to get a sum of one of my variables (beginning balance) by group sortings. then I calculated a ratio of the beginning balance to the sum in a new variable. then i multiplied that ratio by another variable to get total num mortgages. I recoded totalnummortgages into antoher variable, and then i split the file by that new variable and ran bivariate correlation analysis on that. then i recoded that same original variable into a different variable and ran bivariate correlation analysis on that. i also tried to open the spss journal file since someone was saying i could see my previous syntax over there. everything was working fine then, its just when i came in the next morning and reopened this spss file, it gives me that error message when i try to do anything. the data set looks exactly the same in the editor, and all the other spss files are working fine. this is the exact error msg:

Error #1400: Command name : SORT CASES BY
Input Error when reading a case
This command not executed

Any changes made to the working file since 29-JAN-2008 18:10:39 have been lost. The time is now 12:21:42

Thanks.

ViAnn Beadle wrote

How are your data stored? As an spss data file or something else? Can you
replicate this error? When you open your data file, does everything look OK
within the data editor.


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
jimjohn
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:58 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Errror message

i was using recode variable too. and i recoded the same variable into two
different new variables. could this be a reason why?



jimjohn wrote:
>
> can someone plz help me with this:
>
> i just opened my spss dataset this morning and i tried to sort by
> variables (this is a normal thing that i usually do to further analyze my
> data). but everytime i try to sort i get the following error:
>
> Error #1400 Command name: SORT CASES BY
> Input Error when reading a case
> This command not executed
>
> Any changes made to the working file since 29-JAN-2008 18:10:39 have been
> lost.
>
> does anyone have an idea why this is happening? does it have something to
> do with what i was doing yesterday? all i was doing was creating new
> variables by transform -> compute variable. then i was using split file
> and aggregate. thanks.
>
>

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