Hello. Could anyone let me know what I am doing wrong, or perhaps
over-engineering with the following macro:
DEFINE !fa (!POS=!CMDEND)
!LET !cnt=""
!DO !var !IN (!1)
!LET !cnt=!CONCAT(!cnt," ")
!IF (!LEN(!cnt)=1) !THEN !LET !arg1=!var
!ELSE
!LET !arg2=!var
FACTOR
/VARIABLES !arg1 TO !arg2
/MISSING PAIRWISE
/ANALYSIS !arg1 TO !arg2
/PRINT EXTRACTION ROTATION
/CRITERIA FACTORS(!arg3) ITERATE(25)
/EXTRACTION PC
/CRITERIA ITERATE(25)
/ROTATION VARIMAX
/METHOD = CORRELATION.
!IFEND
!IF (!LEN(!cnt)=2) !THEN !LET !cnt="" !IFEND
!DOEND
!ENDDEFINE.
!fa q506a1 q506a38 2.
Basically I am telling the macro to run a Factor Analysis on the
variables q506a1 through q506a38 and I wish it to automatically run a
2-factor solution. Is the macro already way over-engineered to
accomplish this? Overall, what am I doing wrong? Lastly, how could I
re-write the macro to feed it a whole list of non-adjacent variables so
that it automatically just lists them out. For example, one macro call
might be:
!fa var1 var10 var15 2, and other might be:
!var var10 TO var15 v20 var25 var30 3
Thank you very much.
Zachary
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