Date:         Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:47:20 +0200
Reply-To:     John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
Subject:      Re: Problem with GET  /KEEP
Comments: cc: Bruce Weaver <bweaver@lakeheadu.ca>
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Panic over.  Working carefully from scratch, this time I got a new untitled Data Editor with:

title 'Recode exercise 2.3.1.3' .
GET 
  FILE='C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Weebly website contents\SPSS-PASW files\newbsa89.sav'
  /keep v275 v1408 v1411 v1412 v1727 v2363 v2374 .

Last time I didn't get a new Data Editor, but I don't know why: the syntax is the same, apart from adding two more variables to keep.  The target file has a different name, but it is a copy of the one in the example above, so it should have worked.

At least i don't now have to rewrite the tutorials (apart from sticking the screenshots in).

John Hall
http://surveyresearch.weebly.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John F Hall 
  To: spssx-l@listserv.uga.edu 
  Cc: Bruce Weaver 
  Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 1:29 PM
  Subject: Problem with GET /KEEP


  Just spent ages trying to get GET /KEEP to work the way it used to and the way I explain it in tutorials.

  I'm working with a *.sav file on my own machine which has over 1000 variables, but I only need five for the tutorial.

  GET 
    FILE='C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Weebly website contents\SPSS-PASW files\weebly_bsa89.sav'
    /keep v275 v1408 v1411 v1412  v2374 . 

  fetches the file, but it still has over 1000 variables.  I tried all variations of 

  EXECUTE. and 
  DATASET NAME DataSetn WINDOW=FRONT, but got nowhere.

  After a lot of messing about I managed to get what I wanted with

  save out 'C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Weebly website contents\SPSS-PASW files\weeblytest.sav'
    /keep v275 v1408 v1411 v1412  v2374 . 

  but even that didn't work by itself.  In the end 

  XSAVE. worked, but I had to go back to the folder and double click on the new file before I could use it.

  Any users trying to get my tutorial and exercise to work would have gone home.  Is there any way I can get GET to work first time and for the reduced file to be the one displayed in the Data Editor?  Otherwise , I have a lot of rewriting to do.

  John Hall
  http://surveyresearch.weebly.com

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