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larger regular variable width fixed width Browallia new free style script fangsong wp symbols WP symbols Art Kendall Social Research Consultants ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD
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Art's message looks fine in the Nabble archive, but is a real mess in the UGA list archives. Compare the following:
http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/email-formatting-on-SPSSx-l-td3258935.html#a3258935 http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1011&L=spssx-l&F=&S=&P=14265
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If anybody uses Outlook, please let me know if you can see the
variations in the previous post.
I can privately send a .pdf that shows how it comes through using Thunderbird. Art Kendall Social Research Consultants On 11/10/2010 11:10 AM, Art Kendall wrote: I sent this to Alan directly earlier. Now to the list.===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD
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I am not on Outlook: Using the UGA archives from FireFox on Win Vista.
Your posts appear as readable HTML. Richard Ristow's come over as HTML as well (in fact his are even messier with an abundance of   elements all over the place -particularly in quoted text- [making many posts completely unreadable]). It seems that UGA does NOT alter the raw HTML nor strip any HTML tags so what might look fine in Nabble looks like utter crap in UGA. I don't know what the answer is, but I wonder if it is too much to ask (probably most definitely) that people compose and post messages using a plain text editor? I doubt very much that UGA will do any changes on there end wrt HTML formatting. Take a look at this message for example: http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1010&L=spssx-l&F=&S=&P=39860 Below is an extract: |-----------------------------|---------------------------|<br> |Output Created |21-OCT-2010 18:26:41 |<br> |-----------------------------|---------------------------|<br> varA varB varC varD<br><br> 1 1 0 1000<br> 1 2 0 0<br> 1 3 0 0<br> 1 4 1 100<br> 1 5 0 0<br><br> 2 1 0 0<br> 2 2 0& David ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD
Please reply to the list and not to my personal email.
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Create missing value with DATA LIST
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Hello, I'm trying to create some data with missing values DATA LIST FREE /antes (F2.0) despues (F2.0). BEGIN DATA 11 16 12 17 . 12 15 18 7 13 8 10 9 9 12 14 16 18 13 20 12 17 11 15 END DATA. I get the following mesage: Warning # 1102 An invalid numeric field has been found. The result has been set to the system-missing value. Command line: 230 Current case: 3 Current splitfile group: 1 Field contents: '.' Record number: 3 Starting column: 1 Record length: 5 But the results are as I want: third case first value missing Is there any way to specify the missing value within the DATA LIST - END DATA? Thanks Andrés Mg. Andrés Burga León Coordinador de Análisis e Informática Unidad de Medición de la Calidad Educativa Ministerio de Educación del Perú Calle El Comercio s/n (espalda del Museo de la Nación) Lima 41 Perú Teléfono 615-5840 |
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Art
I'm on Outlook Express and everyting comes through
fine.
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Outlook 2003 Win XP Sp3 and all looks as
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WMB From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Art Kendall Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:37 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: email formatting on SPSSx-l I can privately send a .pdf that shows how it comes through using Thunderbird. Art Kendall Social Research Consultants On 11/10/2010 11:10 AM, Art Kendall wrote: I sent this to Alan directly earlier. Now to the list.===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD
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Re: Create missing value with DATA LIST
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Hi Andres. Notice that you received a warning message, not an error message. So there is nothing wrong with your syntax.
If you want a version that won't produce a warning, substitute a user-defined missing value where you currently have the system missing value. Normally, a user-defined missing value is way out of range for valid values so that is recognizable should you forget to define it as missing. It looks like all of your valid values are positive 2-digit numbers. So you could use 999 or -999, for example. But you'd need to change the variable format to something bigger than F2.0. E.g., DATA LIST FREE / antes despues (2F5.0). BEGIN DATA 11 16 12 17 -999 12 15 18 7 13 8 10 9 9 12 14 16 18 13 20 12 17 11 15 END DATA. missing values antes despues (-999). value labels antes despues -999 'Missing'. HTH.
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Re: Create missing value with DATA LIST
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You can just ignore the warning, or do
something like this:
data list list (",") /antes despues (2F2). begin data 11, 16 12, 17 , 12 15, 18 ... etc. end data. The quoted delimiter doesn't have to be a comma.
Hello, I'm trying to create some data with missing values DATA LIST FREE /antes (F2.0) despues (F2.0). BEGIN DATA 11 16 12 17 . 12 15 18 7 13 8 10 9 9 12 14 16 18 13 20 12 17 11 15 END DATA. I get the following mesage: Warning # 1102 An invalid numeric field has been found. The result has been set to the system-missing value. Command line: 230 Current case: 3 Current splitfile group: 1 Field contents: '.' Record number: 3 Starting column: 1 Record length: 5 But the results are as I want: third case first value missing Is there any way to specify the missing value within the DATA LIST - END DATA? Thanks Andrés Mg. Andrés Burga León Coordinador de Análisis e Informática Unidad de Medición de la Calidad Educativa Ministerio de Educación del Perú Calle El Comercio s/n (espalda del Museo de la Nación) Lima 41 Perú Teléfono 615-5840 |
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That's interesting. I didn't know that using a delimiter would make the warning go away. Thanks for the lesson, Rick.
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Andres,
Rick's code also works if you use space as delimiter in your original data, but don't define missing with a dot.
data list list (" ") /antes despues (2F2). begin data 11 16
12 17 12 15 18 7 13 8 10 9 9 12 14 16 18 13 20 12 17 11 15 END DATA. Saludos,
vlp
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Bruce Weaver <[hidden email]> wrote: That's interesting. I didn't know that using a delimiter would make the |
Re: Create missing value with DATA LIST
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Hi Bruce (and others)!
1) Even with the F1 format, Bruce's suggestions seems to work fine: DATA LIST FREE / antes despues (2F1). BEGIN DATA 11 16 12 17 -999 12 END DATA. 2) In data list FREE, this seems to work too DATA LIST FREE / antes despues (2F1). BEGIN DATA 11 16 12 17 ''' 12 15 18 7 13 END DATA. Best, Ruben > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:39:42 -0800 > From: [hidden email] > Subject: Re: Create missing value with DATA LIST > To: [hidden email] > > That's interesting. I didn't know that using a delimiter would make the > warning go away. Thanks for the lesson, Rick. > > > > Rick Oliver wrote: > > > > You can just ignore the warning, or do something like this: > > > > data list list (",") /antes despues (2F2). > > begin data > > 11, 16 > > 12, 17 > > , 12 > > 15, 18 > > ... > > etc. > > end data. > > > > The quoted delimiter doesn't have to be a comma. > > > > > > > > From: > > ANDRES ALBERTO BURGA LEON <[hidden email]> > > To: > > [hidden email] > > Date: > > 11/10/2010 11:23 AM > > Subject: > > Create missing value with DATA LIST > > Sent by: > > "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]> > > > > > > > > > > Hello, I'm trying to create some data with missing values > > > > > > DATA LIST FREE > > /antes (F2.0) despues (F2.0). > > BEGIN DATA > > 11 16 > > 12 17 > > . 12 > > 15 18 > > 7 13 > > 8 10 > > 9 9 > > 12 14 > > 16 18 > > 13 20 > > 12 17 > > 11 15 > > END DATA. > > > > I get the following mesage: > > > > Warning # 1102 > > An invalid numeric field has been found. The result has been set to the > > system-missing value. > > Command line: 230 Current case: 3 Current splitfile group: 1 > > Field contents: '.' > > Record number: 3 Starting column: 1 Record length: 5 > > > > > > But the results are as I want: third case first value missing > > > > Is there any way to specify the missing value within the DATA LIST - END > > DATA? > > > > Thanks > > > > Andrés > > > > > > Mg. Andrés Burga León > > Coordinador de Análisis e Informática > > Unidad de Medición de la Calidad Educativa > > Ministerio de Educación del Perú > > Calle El Comercio s/n (espalda del Museo de la Nación) > > Lima 41 > > Perú > > Teléfono 615-5840 > > > > > > > > > ----- > -- > Bruce Weaver > [hidden email] > http://sites.google.com/a/lakeheadu.ca/bweaver/ > > "When all else fails, RTFM." > > NOTE: My Hotmail account is not monitored regularly. > To send me an e-mail, please use the address shown above. > > -- > View this message in context: http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/email-formatting-on-SPSSx-l-tp3258935p3259198.html > Sent from the SPSSX Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ===================== > To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to > [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the > command. To leave the list, send the command > SIGNOFF SPSSX-L > For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command > INFO REFCARD |
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