SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES documentation

[Mario Giesel]

Hello, SPSS friends,
  I'm currently investigating the SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES command.
There are some issues regarding the examples delivered with the /HELP subcommand
that makes it difficult for me to follow the syntax logic (see below for two issues).
Is there an updated version of this commands' documentation?

Example 1:
LOGISTIC REGRESSION <syntax for logistic>.
SPSS MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE='variables in the equation' COLUMNS= 2 3 'Upper'.

=> it should be SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES
=> There is no "COLUMNS" keyword, according to the syntax chart

Example 2:
DISCRIMINANT <syntax for discriminant>
SPSS MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE="Group Statistics", COLUMNS="Unweighted"
/WIDTHS WIDTHS=50 ROWLABELS=-1 ROWLABELWIDTHS=40.
=> There is a comma after the SUBTYPE definition?!

Syntax chart:
SPSS MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE=subtypes SELECT=list of columns or rows to operate on
    [PROCESS={PRECEDING* | ALL}
    [DIMENSION={COLUMNS* | ROWS}]
    [LEVEL=number]
    [HIDE={TRUE|FALSE}
    [REGEXP={NO*|YES}]
    [PRINTLABELS={YES|NO*}]
[/WIDTHS [WIDTHS=list-of-widths] [ROWLABELS=list of row label numbers]
    [ROWLABELVALUES=list of widths]]
[/STYLES [TEXTSTYLE={REGULAR|BOLD|ITALIC|BOLDITALIC}]
    [TEXTCOLOR=RGB values]
    [BACKGROUNDCOLOR=RGB values]
    [CUSTOMFUNCTION="module.function" ...]
    [TLOOK="filespec"]
    [APPLYTO={BOTH* | LABELS | DATACELLS| True/False expression}]
[/HELP].

Thanks,
  Mario

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[Jon K Peck]

The syntax help for all of our extension commands has been rewritten for display as html in a browser window, and it will contain these corrections, but the new versions have not yet been posted.  For the points mentioned below, in the first example the line should be

SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE='variables in the equation' SELECT= 2 3 'Upper'
 By default  DIMENSION=COLUMNS.

In the second example, commas are equivalent to spaces in Statistics syntax, so the comma is legal not necessary, but the example should read
SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE="Group Statistics" SELECT="Unweighted"

Regards,

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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From:        Mario Giesel <[hidden email]>
To:        [hidden email]
Date:        09/16/2014 05:04 AM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES documentation
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Hello, SPSS friends,
 I'm currently investigating the SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES command.
There are some issues regarding the examples delivered with the /HELP subcommand
that makes it difficult for me to follow the syntax logic (see below for two issues).
Is there an updated version of this commands' documentation?

Example 1:
LOGISTIC REGRESSION <syntax for logistic>.
SPSS MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE='variables in the equation' COLUMNS= 2 3 'Upper'.

=> it should be SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES
=> There is no "COLUMNS" keyword, according to the syntax chart

Example 2:
DISCRIMINANT <syntax for discriminant>
SPSS MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE="Group Statistics", COLUMNS="Unweighted"
/WIDTHS WIDTHS=50 ROWLABELS=-1 ROWLABELWIDTHS=40.
=> There is a comma after the SUBTYPE definition?!

Syntax chart:
SPSS MODIFY TABLES SUBTYPE=subtypes SELECT=list of columns or rows to operate on
   [PROCESS={PRECEDING* | ALL}
   [DIMENSION={COLUMNS* | ROWS}]
   [LEVEL=number]
   [HIDE={TRUE|FALSE}
   [REGEXP={NO*|YES}]
   [PRINTLABELS={YES|NO*}]
[/WIDTHS [WIDTHS=list-of-widths] [ROWLABELS=list of row label numbers]
   [ROWLABELVALUES=list of widths]]
[/STYLES [TEXTSTYLE={REGULAR|BOLD|ITALIC|BOLDITALIC}]
   [TEXTCOLOR=RGB values]
   [BACKGROUNDCOLOR=RGB values]
   [CUSTOMFUNCTION="module.function" ...]
   [TLOOK="filespec"]
   [APPLYTO={BOTH* | LABELS | DATACELLS| True/False expression}]
[/HELP].

Thanks,
 Mario
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