Problems with downloading *.txt files
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I have reached the stage in my SPSS tutorials where students will experience a change of gear, moving from one variable to two variables and then three. Some of my draft exercises for 2- and 3-way CROSSTABS (zero order and 1st order tables) would involve some quite complex recoding of variables (eg qualifications obtained by education or training, combinations of income from various sources etc) to generate derived variables with two to five categories suitable for beginners to tabulate. Using DATA LIST to read in the data and then RECODE ~ ~ ~ INTO or DO IF ~~~ END IF for these would be quite forbidding and I have therefore uploaded whole surveys (including such derived variables) in *.sav format to my website. The idea is for users to download one or more of these files and save them on a CD or a USB stick designated as drive E: These download perfectly and can be even opened immediately in SPSS. So far so good. They can also be saved direct to drive E: (in my case a USB stick) for later use with GET ~ ~ ~ / KEEP to work on small sub-sets. I have also uploaded some of the associated raw data files in *.txt format (actually major surveys in 80-column ASCII files, Courier New fixed width) which I want to use in tutorials for DATA LIST. File > Save as > *.txt saves to my desktop immediately, but if I try to save to USB drive E: I get a message “This webpage could not be saved” and the file does not appear on drive E: If I repeat the attempt to save to USB drive E: the file appears to be there already and I get the message “*.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it? Whether I answer Yes or No the file does not appear in drive E: until I switch to another folder and then return to E: when it magically appears. This could be very confusing and off-putting for beginners, so I’ll have to explain what happens step-by-step with appropriate screenshots, but can anyone explain to me what is going on? If anyone would like to test the above and let me know what happens at your end, the files are listed under 2.3.0 on page http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/23-data-transformations.html John F Hall (Mr) [Retired academic survey researcher] Email: [hidden email] Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com SPSS start page: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html |
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Confusion over: problem solved. After 3 and a half years of developing SPSS tutorials on my website, I’ve only just learned from Weebly support that: right click > Save target as . . [for any *.sav or *.txt raw data file] right click > Open (or Open in new window) [for *.sav files only] . . work on file links on the site as well as filenames in folders on my screen. This makes things much simpler and clearer to users, avoids tears and reduces seven pages to four in (yet another) draft download tutorial which I hope to substitute later today. This “Old Dog” still has a few new tricks to learn. The brilliant thing is that for *.sav files: Right click > open > open: . . downloads and opens the file direct from the site (after a short delay for security checks). Further tutorials for Block 3 (still in final draft) can now change gear from 1st to stick-shift 3rd (or take off in free flight instead of taxi-ing round the perimeter runway) progressing from analysing one variable to analysing two variables and then three (or more). Having laid all the SPSS foundations in Blocks 1 and 2, users will now be enabled to get stuck into some serious analysis of data from major surveys. John F Hall (Mr) [Retired academic survey researcher] Email: [hidden email] Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com SPSS start page: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html PS “Old Dog” above refers to: http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/old-dog-old-tricks-using-spss-syntax-to-beat-the-mouse-trap.html From: John F Hall [mailto:[hidden email]] I have reached the stage in my SPSS tutorials where students will experience a change of gear, moving from one variable to two variables and then three. Some of my draft exercises for 2- and 3-way CROSSTABS (zero order and 1st order tables) would involve some quite complex recoding of variables (eg qualifications obtained by education or training, combinations of income from various sources etc) to generate derived variables with two to five categories suitable for beginners to tabulate. Using DATA LIST to read in the data and then RECODE ~ ~ ~ INTO or DO IF ~~~ END IF for these would be quite forbidding and I have therefore uploaded whole surveys (including such derived variables) in *.sav format to my website. The idea is for users to download one or more of these files and save them on a CD or a USB stick designated as drive E: These download perfectly and can be even opened immediately in SPSS. So far so good. They can also be saved direct to drive E: (in my case a USB stick) for later use with GET ~ ~ ~ / KEEP to work on small sub-sets. I have also uploaded some of the associated raw data files in *.txt format (actually major surveys in 80-column ASCII files, Courier New fixed width) which I want to use in tutorials for DATA LIST. File > Save as > *.txt saves to my desktop immediately, but if I try to save to USB drive E: I get a message “This webpage could not be saved” and the file does not appear on drive E: If I repeat the attempt to save to USB drive E: the file appears to be there already and I get the message “*.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it? Whether I answer Yes or No the file does not appear in drive E: until I switch to another folder and then return to E: when it magically appears. This could be very confusing and off-putting for beginners, so I’ll have to explain what happens step-by-step with appropriate screenshots, but can anyone explain to me what is going on? If anyone would like to test the above and let me know what happens at your end, the files are listed under 2.3.0 on page http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/23-data-transformations.html John F Hall (Mr) [Retired academic survey researcher] Email: [hidden email] Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com SPSS start page: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html |
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The new tutorial has now been posted. Fledgling researchers please note:
flying is now possible. http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/9/8/2998485/2.3.0__preliminary_ file_downloads.pdf John F Hall (Mr) [Retired academic survey researcher] Email: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email] Website: <http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com> www.surveyresearch.weebly.com SPSS start page: <http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html> www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html From: John F Hall [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: 05 June 2013 10:35 To: [hidden email] Cc: 'Bruce Weaver' Subject: RE: Problems with downloading *.txt files Confusion over: problem solved. After 3 and a half years of developing SPSS tutorials on my website, I've only just learned from Weebly support that: right click > Save target as . . [for any *.sav or *.txt raw data file] right click > Open (or Open in new window) [for *.sav files only] . . work on file links on the site as well as filenames in folders on my screen. This makes things much simpler and clearer to users, avoids tears and reduces seven pages to four in (yet another) draft download tutorial which I hope to substitute later today. This "Old Dog" still has a few new tricks to learn. The brilliant thing is that for *.sav files: Right click > open > open: . . downloads and opens the file direct from the site (after a short delay for security checks). Further tutorials for Block 3 (still in final draft) can now change gear from 1st to stick-shift 3rd (or take off in free flight instead of taxi-ing round the perimeter runway) progressing from analysing one variable to analysing two variables and then three (or more). Having laid all the SPSS foundations in Blocks 1 and 2, users will now be enabled to get stuck into some serious analysis of data from major surveys. John F Hall (Mr) [Retired academic survey researcher] Email: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email] Website: <http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com> www.surveyresearch.weebly.com SPSS start page: <http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html> www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html PS "Old Dog" above refers to: http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/old-dog-old-tricks-using-spss-syntax-to-bea t-the-mouse-trap.html From: John F Hall [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: 04 June 2013 09:51 To: '[hidden email]' Cc: 'Bruce Weaver' Subject: Problems with downloading *.txt files I have reached the stage in my SPSS tutorials where students will experience a change of gear, moving from one variable to two variables and then three. Some of my draft exercises for 2- and 3-way CROSSTABS (zero order and 1st order tables) would involve some quite complex recoding of variables (eg qualifications obtained by education or training, combinations of income from various sources etc) to generate derived variables with two to five categories suitable for beginners to tabulate. Using DATA LIST to read in the data and then RECODE ~ ~ ~ INTO or DO IF ~~~ END IF for these would be quite forbidding and I have therefore uploaded whole surveys (including such derived variables) in *.sav format to my website. The idea is for users to download one or more of these files and save them on a CD or a USB stick designated as drive E: These download perfectly and can be even opened immediately in SPSS. So far so good. They can also be saved direct to drive E: (in my case a USB stick) for later use with GET ~ ~ ~ / KEEP to work on small sub-sets. I have also uploaded some of the associated raw data files in *.txt format (actually major surveys in 80-column ASCII files, Courier New fixed width) which I want to use in tutorials for DATA LIST. File > Save as > *.txt saves to my desktop immediately, but if I try to save to USB drive E: I get a message "This webpage could not be saved" and the file does not appear on drive E: If I repeat the attempt to save to USB drive E: the file appears to be there already and I get the message "*.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it? Whether I answer Yes or No the file does not appear in drive E: until I switch to another folder and then return to E: when it magically appears. This could be very confusing and off-putting for beginners, so I'll have to explain what happens step-by-step with appropriate screenshots, but can anyone explain to me what is going on? If anyone would like to test the above and let me know what happens at your end, the files are listed under 2.3.0 on page http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/23-data-transformations.html John F Hall (Mr) [Retired academic survey researcher] Email: <mailto:[hidden email]> [hidden email] Website: <http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com> www.surveyresearch.weebly.com SPSS start page: <http://www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html> www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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