Re: delete specific value label

Posted by Jon Peck on May 20, 2021; 7:39pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/delete-specific-value-label-tp5740529p5740545.html

Here is a fully worked out solution using SPSSINC PROGRAM.  First it defines the function deletelabel.  Run this once.

begin program python3.

import spssaux

vardict = spssaux.VariableDict(caseless=True)

def deletelabel():

    vars = sys.argv[1:-1]

    val = sys.argv[-1]

    for v in vars:

        vls = vardict[v].ValueLabels

        if val in vls:

            vls.pop(val)

            vardict[v].ValueLabels = vls

end program.

    

Then, in your macro or wherever you would have called the original program, run code like this.  The last item is the value whose label should be deleted delete.

    

spssinc program deletelabel jobcat minority 1.

The variable list could be a macro:

spssinc program deletelabel !victims 1.

You need to install SPSSINC PROGRAM from the Extension Hub.

This code assumes that the data are defined before running that begin program.  If not or the data might change, just move the vardict line inside the deletelabel function (indenting as the other lines are).

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 8:36 AM emma78 <[hidden email]> wrote:

ok, thank you, but this is far beyond my knowledge. :-( Is there another way
to delete the value labels for variables which are in a macro?



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