working with scripts

[Keli Saporta]

Hi all,

I am interested to run the Preacher-Hays script. I found it on the internet  opened it by the spss (for scrips) run it but nothing happens.

Can someone help and tell me what I am doing wrong?

kelly

[David Marso]

Perhaps a link to the Preacher-Hays script 'found on the internet' would be helpful???
What version of SPSS do you run and what version is the Preacher-Hays designed for?

[Salbod]

I used a  macros a while back; it didn't work at first. The macros were presented too user friendly--they contained lines with leading spaces. I had to reformat the macro--remove leading spaces on most of the lines, to conform to SPSS syntax; then it ran. You might have the same problem with the scripts.

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Perhaps a link to the Preacher-Hays script 'found on the internet' would be helpful???
What version of SPSS do you run and what version is the Preacher-Hays designed for?
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[Bruce Weaver]

Your ESP is on the fritz again, is it?  ;-)

David Marso wrote

Perhaps a link to the Preacher-Hays script 'found on the internet' would be helpful???
What version of SPSS do you run and what version is the Preacher-Hays designed for?

[David Marso]

After a bit of searching I located (OP should have posted this link!!!).
http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ahayes/SPSS%20programs/indirect.htm
As Stephen Salbod indicates the leading spaces might be a problem in older versions of SPSS.
OP mentions "script" which I located on the same page at the bottom.
It is a .sbs file indicating it is written for SAX Basic.
The newer versions of SPSS don't use SAX Basic and I suspect there are some serious compatibility issues with the newer scripting model.
So, best of luck ;-)
As Bruce suggested, my ESPSS is on the Fritz

[Bruce Weaver]

David Marso wrote

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As Bruce suggested, my ESPSS is on the Fritz

A version or two ago, that would have been ES-PSHAW, I suppose.  ;-)

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pshaw

[Jon K Peck]

See below.

Jon Peck
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After a bit of searching I located (OP should have posted this link!!!).
http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ahayes/SPSS%20programs/indirect.htm
As Stephen Salbod indicates the leading spaces might be a problem in older
versions of SPSS.
OP mentions "script" which I located on the same page at the bottom.
It is a .sbs file indicating it is written for SAX Basic.
The newer versions of SPSS don't use SAX Basic and I suspect there are some
serious compatibility issues with the newer scripting model.


>>>>No, most old sbs scripts work fine.  Autoscripts require a small adjustment, and there can be occasional issues with locale sensitivity and a few other minor issues, but other than the igraph and map scripting apis, which no longer exist, you can exist old scripts to run with perhaps a tweak.  While we now use WinWrap Basic instead of SaxBasic, it's actually the same developer for both.



So, best of luck ;-)
As Bruce suggested, my ESPSS is on the Fritz

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