Posted by
Albert-Jan Roskam on
Nov 19, 2013; 4:48pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Flip-command-and-string-vars-tp5723152p5723155.html
It's documented by I have no idea why it behaves this way. In R you can use t(), so with a string-only dataset you can do:
begin program r.
cases = spssdata.GetCaseCount()
dta <- as.data.frame(t(spssdata.GetDataFromSPSS()))
varName <- paste("v", 1:cases, sep="")
varLabel <- rep("", cases)
varType <- rep(8, cases) # assume only A8 vars
varFormat <- rep("A8", cases)
varMeasurementLevel <- rep("nominal", cases)
dict <- as.data.frame(t(data.frame(varName, varLabel, varType, varFormat, varMeasurementLevel)))
rownames(dict) <- c("varName", "varLabel", "varType", "varFormat", "varMeasurementLevel")
names(dict) <- varName
spssdictionary.SetDictionaryToSPSS("transposed", dict)
spssdata.SetDataToSPSS("transposed", dta)
spssdictionary.EndDataStep()
end program.
Regards,
Albert-Jan
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On Tue, 11/19/13, Maguin, Eugene <
[hidden email]> wrote:
Subject: [SPSSX-L] Flip command and string vars
To:
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Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 4:28 PM
Given a dataset of only
string vars of the same dimension, e.g., a5, I’m
curious as to why the Flip command returns sysmis for the
rearranged dataset. I understand that this is a very
specific situation and maybe that’s a good enough
reason.
And I understand why flip won’t work for a mixed
dataset of either strings and numeric or strings of varying
dimensions.
Gene Maguin
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