Date:         Mon, 1 May 2000 13:43:40 -0500
Reply-To:     "Nichols, David" <nichols@SPSS.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Nichols, David" <nichols@SPSS.COM>
Subject:      Re: plus a related problem:      Re: spss 10.0.5: data editor
              doesn't always update

I'm told that this problem was specifically noted and fixed for 10.0.7.

David Nichols
Principal Support Statistician and
Manager of Statistical Support
SPSS Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nichols, David [mailto:nichols@spss.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 1:39 PM
> To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] plus a related problem: Re: spss 10.0.5: data
> editor doesn't always update
>
>
> You're welcome. Running the entire set of commands at once,
> changing just
> the directory in the GET FILE, I get only a single line for
> males on the
> line chart in 10.0.7. Whether this is fixed as part of a specific bug
> separate from the other one we discussed, I don't know, but
> it does seem to
> have been fixed.
>
> David Nichols
> Principal Support Statistician and
> Manager of Statistical Support
> SPSS Inc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rolf Kjoeller [mailto:rolf.kjoeller@GET2NET.DK]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 9:58 AM
> > To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] plus a related problem: Re: spss 10.0.5: data
> > editor doesn't always update
> >
> >
> > Thank you for trying it out; I'll be looking forward to the
> > next patch.
> >
> > Currently I have gone back to 9 because of another problem
> > illustrated by the cut-and-paste job below. What one should
> > get is a linechart with *one* line, but If all commands are
> > run at once, two lines, one for each gender, are created. If
> > the get file-command below the chart is commented out there's
> > no problem, so apparantly the syncronization between IGraph
> > and the rest of SPSS is faulty in 10.0.5; this is a serious
> > problem in a production-oriented setting. Do you know if this
> > is a known problem that is fixed by the next patch?
> > Best regards
> > Rolf
> >
> >
> > GET FILE='C:\Programmer\SPSS\1991 U.S. General Social Survey.sav'.
> > select if sex eq 1 .
> > execute .
> >
> > IGRAPH /VIEWNAME='Line Chart' /X1 = VAR(race) TYPE =
> CATEGORICAL /Y =
> >   VAR(age) TYPE = SCALE /COLOR = VAR(sex) TYPE = CATEGORICAL
> > /COORDINATE =
> >   VERTICAL  /X1LENGTH=3.0 /YLENGTH=3.0 /X2LENGTH=3.0
> /CHARTLOOK='NONE'
> >  /CATORDER VAR(race) (ASCENDING VALUES OMITEMPTY) /CATORDER VAR(sex)
> >   (ASCENDING VALUES OMITEMPTY) /LINE(MEAN) KEY=ON STYLE =
> > LINE DROPLINE = OFF
> >   INTERPOLATE = STRAIGHT BREAK = MISSING.
> > EXE.
> >
> > GET FILE='C:\Programmer\SPSS\1991 U.S. General Social Survey.sav'.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nichols, David <nichols@SPSS.COM>
> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.spssx-l
> > To: <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 10:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: spss 10.0.5: data editor doesn't always update
> >
> >
> > > I'm told that this has explicitly been fixed, so my
> > experience is not just
> > > luck. I don't yet have a date for availability of the
> 10.0.7 patch.
> > >
> > > David Nichols
> > > Principal Support Statistician and
> > > Manager of Statistical Support
> > > SPSS Inc.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Nichols, David [mailto:nichols@spss.com]
> > > > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 3:16 PM
> > > > To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > > > Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] spss 10.0.5: data editor doesn't
> > always update
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I've run into similar kinds of behavior with the 10.x data
> > > > editor. I'm now
> > > > running a pre-release version of 10.0.7, and I can't produce
> > > > that any more.
> > > > I ran these commands 20 times and it updated in the data
> > > > editor every time.
> > > >
> > > > David Nichols
> > > > Principal Support Statistician and
> > > > Manager of Statistical Support
> > > > SPSS Inc.
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Rolf Kjoeller [mailto:rolf.kjoeller@GET2NET.DK]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:05 AM
> > > > > To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > > > > Subject: [SPSSX-L] spss 10.0.5: data editor doesn't
> > always update
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > FWIW there seems to be a problem with the updating of
> > SPSS 10.0.5's
> > > > > dataeditor. After running into the problem I executed
> > the following
> > > > > program 50 times in a row:
> > > > >
> > > > > data list list /x .
> > > > > begin data
> > > > > 1
> > > > > end data .
> > > > >
> > > > > vector tmp(5,f1) .
> > > > > loop #i=1 to 5 .
> > > > > compute tmp(#i)=#i.
> > > > > end loop .
> > > > > list cases .
> > > > >
> > > > > 29 of the 50 times the dataeditor displayed
> > > > > 1,00 1 0 0 0 0    ,
> > > > > 1,00 1 2 0 0 0    or
> > > > > 1,00 1 2 3 0 0
> > > > > after executing. The zero's were actually
> > > > > 6,01347001699907e-154
> > > > > which I guess is the internal sysmis-value.
> > > > >
> > > > > In all cases list gave correct results:
> > > > > X TMP1 TMP2 TMP3 TMP4 TMP5
> > > > > 1,00   1    2    3    4    5
> > > > >
> > > > > Rolf
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>