code to get old "display labels" output?

[Nils-Eivind Naas]

I have some users of SPSS 15 who are despairing over the new look of the
"Display labels" or "Display variables" output.

Is there a macro or Python code to produce the "old" output?

--
Nils-Eivind Naas
Institute for Social Research
Oslo

[Peck, Jon]

Take a look at the DisplayDict Python module on SPSS Developer Central (www.spss.com/devcentral),  It includes a display more like the old one in SPSS and integrates optional codebook-style statistics in the output.

HTH,
Jon Peck



-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Nils-Eivind Naas
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:43 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [SPSSX-L] code to get old "display labels" output?

I have some users of SPSS 15 who are despairing over the new look of the
"Display labels" or "Display variables" output.

Is there a macro or Python code to produce the "old" output?

--
Nils-Eivind Naas
Institute for Social Research
Oslo

[stace swayne]

Dear list,

  I have a variable with student ID numbers such as (16447416) and I would like to shorten the ID numbers by one number such as (1644741).

  Does anyone have a suggestion on the syntax for doing this?

  All advice is appreciated,

  Stace




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[Melissa Ives]

If it is numeric...

        Compute newid=trunc(oldid/10).


Melissa

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
stace swayne
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:04 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [SPSSX-L] Question about shortening values within a variable

Dear list,

  I have a variable with student ID numbers such as (16447416) and I
would like to shorten the ID numbers by one number such as (1644741).

  Does anyone have a suggestion on the syntax for doing this?

  All advice is appreciated,

  Stace




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Or if it's a string var, you could use:
numeric newid (n6.0)
compute newid = trunc(number (rtrim(oldid),n6.0) /10).

or:
string newid (a8).
compute newid = substr(oldid,1,7).
(this assumes that the number of digits per ID is
always 8.

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--- Melissa Ives <[hidden email]> wrote:

> If it is numeric...
>
>         Compute newid=trunc(oldid/10).
>
>
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SPSSX(r) Discussion
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
> stace swayne
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:04 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [SPSSX-L] Question about shortening values
> within a variable
>
> Dear list,
>
>   I have a variable with student ID numbers such as
> (16447416) and I
> would like to shorten the ID numbers by one number
> such as (1644741).
>
>   Does anyone have a suggestion on the syntax for
> doing this?
>
>   All advice is appreciated,
>
>   Stace
>
>
>
>
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[Richard Ristow]

At 05:42 AM 9/11/2007, Nils-Eivind Naas wrote:

>I have some users of SPSS 15 who are despairing over the new look of
>the
>"Display labels" or "Display variables" output.

Fortunately, this has come up before; see thread "Oh, dear. They
improved DISPLAY LABELS.", Thu, 2 Feb 2006 <17:31:51 -0500> ff.

Two solutions were posted; I believe they both work.

Using OMS:

>Date:    Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:40:55 +1100
>From:    Jason Burke <[hidden email]>
>Subject: Re: Oh, dear. They improved DISPLAY LABELS.
>To:      [hidden email]
>
>Try the output management system (OMS), here I pipe the display labels
>output to a text file...:
>
>OMS
>  /SELECT TABLES
>  /IF LABELS = 'Variable Labels'
>  /DESTINATION FORMAT = TEXT
>         OUTFILE = "C:\Temp\DisplayLabels.txt" .
>
>DISPLAY LABELS .
>
>OMSEND .

Using Python:

>Date:    Fri, 3 Feb 2006 07:39:10 -0600
>From:    "Peck, Jon" <[hidden email]>
>Subject: Re: Oh, dear. They improved DISPLAY LABELS.
>To:      [hidden email]
>
>Ok, Ok.  Put this code somewhere convenient and run it whenever you
>feel the urge.
>
>BEGIN PROGRAM.
>import spss, spssaux
>vardict = spssaux.VariableDict()
>for v in vardict:
>         print v.VariableName, v, v.VariableLabel
>END PROGRAM.

[Fry, Jonathan B.]

compute shortid = trunc(id/10).
format shortid (f7).

Jonathan Fry
SPSS Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of stace swayne
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:04 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Question about shortening values within a variable

Dear list,

  I have a variable with student ID numbers such as (16447416) and I would like to shorten the ID numbers by one number such as (1644741).

  Does anyone have a suggestion on the syntax for doing this?

  All advice is appreciated,

  Stace




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