SPLIT FILE and Custom Tables

[Ntonghanwah Forcheh]

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[Jon Peck]

From the CSR:

CTABLES ignores SPLIT FILE requests if layered splits (compare groups in the graphical user interface)

are requested. You can compare groups by using the split variables at the highest nesting level for row

variables. See the TABLE subcommand for nesting variables.

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If you do want to make separate splits anyway, you can use the SPSSINC SPLIT DATASET and SPSSINC PROCESS FILES extension commands to break up the dataset and iteratively apply a set of syntax to each one with results in a single Viewer file or a separate file per dataset.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Ntonghanwah Forcheh <[hidden email]> wrote:

For quite a few versions now, custom tables ignores my split file option.

Generally, I have gone around it by using layered variables.

However, I have a series of custom tables and other analysis that I wish to perform separately for different values of some categorical variables -- essentially, I have a national data set, and wish to generate a set of tables and other analysis.

I recently started attempting to learn and use Python. I was able to use split file in python to generate standard output such as Frequencies, crosstabs, etc.

However, when I tried  it with custom tables, the split files option was again ignored.

very frustrating- 

Any help on using split files with custom tables together? or an alternative solution to this?

Thanks.

Forcheh

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