Search and Find Script for SPSS

[Wilhelm Landerholm | Queue]

Hi,
a couple of years ago I got fed up that it was so difficult to find variables in SPSS. So, I programmed a script to solve the problem. I have recently received several requests for this script, so I thought, maybe there are some on this list who also could use this. Just save http://spss.statb.com/script/qfind.txt as a .SBS file on your computer, open the file in SPSS/PASW and press F5 to run.

Hope it at least can help someone.

All the best

[John F Hall]

If you use positional, sequential or question number variable names instead of mnemonics, and syntax instead of GUI your problems are solved.  Shame you can't highlight variables in the Data Editor and transfer them to whatever analysis you want.

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Subject: Search and Find Script for SPSS

Hi,
a couple of years ago I got fed up that it was so difficult to find variables in SPSS. So, I programmed a script to solve the problem. I have recently received several requests for this script, so I thought, maybe there are some on this list who also could use this. Just save http://spss.statb.com/script/qfind.txt as a .SBS file on your computer, open the file in SPSS/PASW and press F5 to run.

Hope it at least can help someone.

All the best

[Jon K Peck]

Here are some new and updated items on SPSS Developer Central (www.spss.com/devcentral) that might be of interest.  These require the Python programmability plugin and at least version 17 of IBM SPSS Statistics.  SPSSINC APRIORI also requires the R plugin.

There is a new extension command, SPSSINC RECODEEX.  This command, which does not have a dialog box interface, extends the standard RECODE command as follows
- Date and time constants are used in the recode definition for variables of those types
- It can automatically generate variable and value labels for the output variables based on the input labels and the recode definition.
- The types (string/string size/numeric) of existing variables that are the target of a recode can be changed.

There is a new custom dialog, Format Correlations, and accompanying implementation file for use with SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES to improve the display of correlation matrices from CORRELATIONS and NONPAR CORR.  It can optionally
- suppress the upper triangle of the table
- suppress the count rows
- suppress correlations that are not significant and the significance level row
- highlight large correlations

The SPSSINC APRIORI command has been updated to version 2 with more control over options.  For Statistics 18 or later, it is packaged as an spe file, which can be installed directly.  Users of version 17 should follow the instructions in the ReadMe file in the zip.

The spssaux.py module has a bugfix for GetVariableLabels and the equivalent property.

We hope that you will find these items useful.

Jon Peck
SPSS, an IBM Company
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