Re: PSPP: WRITE/PRINT

[John Darrington]

It sounds to me like you need to use the AGGREGATE command, and *then*
use PRINT to output the data.  But you don't say which variable you
want to be your catagorical variable so I can't provide an example for
you. 

J'

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:45:54AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
     What is the difference between PRINT and WRITE.  The User Guide is not much
     help, with regard to either, unless you understand technospeak.  References
     to transformations and procedures do not mean thing to me.  More to the
     point, how are both used?  I am trying to create a frequency distribution
     in order to carry the results through to some charting software, where I
     have control over the presentation of the output.  If I use the following
     (taken from SPSS/PC+ by John Hedderson), for example:
     
     DATA LIST /
         ID             1-2
         EDUC   3-4
         SEX            5
         HAPPY  6.
     BEGIN DATA.
     010912
     021223
     031521
     041222
     050611
     061612
     071522
     081612
     091821
     101412
     111321
     121611
     130922
     141212
     151221
     161821
     170821
     181222
     191613
     20142
     END DATA.
     MISSING VALUES
         EDUC   (-9)
         HAPPY
         SEX            (0).
     LIST.
     FREQUENCIES EDUC HAPPY.
     PRINT                      (I copied this
         OUTFILE = 'testfile'   bit from various  
         TABLE                  websites.) 
         /EDUC SEX HAPPY.
     EXECUTE.
     QUIT.
     
     Instead of the frequency distribution I want, I get:
     
       9 1 2 
      12 2 3 
      15 2 1 
      12 2 2 
       6 1 1 
      16 1 2 
      15 2 2 
      16 1 2 
      18 2 1 
      14 1 2 
      13 2 1 
      16 1 1 
       9 2 2 
      12 1 2 
      12 2 1 
      18 2 1 
       8 2 1 
      12 2 2 
      16 1 3 
      14 2 . 
     
     The output file 'pspp.list' is fine on the screen in PSPP but is barely
     usable in a text editor, because it contains repeated letters and control
     characters.  What is the solution, please?
     
     John Shipley
     
     Hull, England
     
     
     
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