Date:         Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:32:38 -0500
Reply-To:     "Marks, Jim" <jim.marks@lodgenet.com>
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From:         "Marks, Jim" <jim.marks@lodgenet.com>
Subject:      Re: Switching variables and observations
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the command you want is FLIP.

It is available through syntax, or through the GUI at Data/ Transpose.

FLIP switches rows and columns. String values do not flip, and value labels
and variable labels do not transfer. Flip creates a variable called CASE_LBL
which holds the names from the old file.

You can provide a variable list or flip all variables.

FLIP will create new variables named VAR001 to VARn or it will use CASE_LBL
if present. You can override this naming convention with /NEWNAMES = varname
to create new names. If the naming variable is numeric, you get v_#. If the
naming variable is a  string, you get @@@@@@@@ (Uppercase; long strings get
truncated). Duplicate names get numbered.

From a file with minute by minute observations for a number of days:

FLIP VARIABLES =  min_1 to min_1440 /NEWNAMES = day.

Cheers
Jim Marks
Market Analyst
LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation
605.988.1616

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Andrew Bowell Jr. [mailto:bowell@nbcs.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:51 AM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Switching variables and observations


I'm helping someone who has a data set that basically needs to be
swapped.  What are now observations have to become variables and what are
now variables have to become observations.  How can I do this?

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Rob Bowell
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