Re: PSPP-BUG: var_get_case_index: Assertion `var_has_vardict (v)' failed

[Zoltán Fábián]

Hi,

if i could be a little bit off-topic: I was always impressed by the 
responsiveness and professional nature of this list. Hope you can 
implement the behaviour that is followed by SPSS. Thanks.
To be more on-topic. A kind of hack to avoid this type of error: one can 
always leave out TEMPORARY and RANK and than SAVE OUTFILE= 
'WHATEVER.sav', than MATCH FILES FILE  = 'WHATEVER.sav' /TABLE = 
'WHATEVER.sav' /BY gender. That was the way I overcome this "bug".

Cheers,

Zoltan


Cheers, and I wish you Happy New Year,

Zoltan

On 30/12/12 19:12, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 09:09:03AM +0100, Zolt?n F?bi?n wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> > Please , consider the following example:
> >
> > DATA LIST TABLE /x 1 gender 3 (A).
> > BEGIN DATA.
> > 1 f
> > 2 m
> > 3 f
> > 4 m
> > 5 f
> > 6 m
> > 7 f
> > 8 m
> > 9 f
> > end data.
> > FREQUENCIES x gender.
> > RANK x.
> > DISPLAY DICTIONARY.
> > TEMPORARY.
> > SELECT IF (gender="f").
> > RANK x /ntiles (2) into y1.
> > FREQUENCIES y1.
> >
> > TEMPORARY.
> > SELECT IF (gender="m").
> > RANK x /ntiles (2) into y2.
> > FREQUENCIES y2.
> >
> > It runs in SPSS and produced the attached output.
> Thanks a lot!  It seems that SPSS ranks the selected cases and gives the
> non-selected case missing values in the rank variable.  This is a
> reasonable interpretation, and probably the most useful, but somewhat
> tricky to implement.
>
> I've added this information to bug #37999 on Savannah:
>          https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37999