Tags For SPSS Syntax File

[SUBSCRIBE SPSSX-JohnF]

Anyone know if its possible to add Tags to syntax file?

Thanks,
John

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[Jon Peck]

Please elaborate on what you want to do.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:26 PM SUBSCRIBE SPSSX-JohnF <[hidden email]> wrote:

Anyone know if its possible to add Tags to syntax file?

Thanks,
John

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[SUBSCRIBE SPSSX-JohnF]

Thanks, I just realized my query was incomplete.  Tags for searching, that is for example, you have a syntax file which calculates age and race, is it possible to tag the syntax file for easy searching later, e.g., add a tag, age, race and one could search for those tags.

Thanks,
John

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[Art Kendall]

I am not sure exactly what you are looking for what I use use Agent Ransack.

In one box one puts something like "c:\users]Art\P R O J E C T S\;D:\"  
in another "*.sps"
and in another "age sex"



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[Jon Peck]

The NTFS file system used by Windows, does support a tagging system for files, but only certain file types such as xlsx can use this out of the box.  For those, you can go to Properties in the Windows Explorer and set tags, and there is a search facility that can use them.  However, none of the Statistics file types are supported this way.

You can install a third party tool such as FileExplorer (https://github.com/Dijji/FileMeta/) to add new file types such as sps, but it is rather clumsy.  It also has the serious disadvantage that if a file leaves NTFS, the tags are lost, and if a file save protocol such as save under a temporary  name, then delete the older one, and then rename, the tags are lost.  This is how sav files work.  It might work for syntax files.

You  could, of course, include tag information in file names, but that would get old fast.  What I do is use grep - a smarter version of Windows find - to search content in a wildcarded filespec.

SPSS, SAS, and Stata data files can have their variable lists collected into, natch, an SPSS dataset by the GATHERMD extension command - it shows source, name, label, and selected custom attributes, but, of course that doesn't include syntax.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:41 PM SUBSCRIBE SPSSX-JohnF <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks, I just realized my query was incomplete.  Tags for searching, that is for example, you have a syntax file which calculates age and race, is it possible to tag the syntax file for easy searching later, e.g., add a tag, age, race and one could search for those tags.

Thanks,
John

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