Re: how open exel files in pspp?

[ashok68]

thanx julia, u r like god sent messenger to me


Julia Moretto Amâncio wrote:
> 
> thanks a lot, Andrew. It helps and works!
> regards, Julia
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>   From: Andrew Choens 
>   To: Julia Moretto Amâncio 
>   Cc: address@hidden 
>   Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:03 PM
>   Subject: Re: how open exel files in pspp?
> 
> 
>   Umm. You've got a couple of different things going on there.
> 
>   Do you want to open an Excel file (.xls, xlst) or XML (.xml). If you
>   want to open an excel file (spreadsheet), the easiest way is probably to
>   export it from Excel to a comma separated values file (.csv) which pspp
>   and psppire can both read. I have also been known to use R (R-CRAN) to
>   import data directly from excel files and export them as .sav file.
> 
>   The first way is probably what you are looking for. Once you export your
>   data from Excel or OpenOffice.org as a .csv file, you can import into
>   PSPP really easily. See:
> 
>   File --> Import Delimited Text Data
> 
>   If you are trying to import a .xml file, I can't help you. I don't do a
>   lot of web stuff and I'm pretty ignorant about XML files, but I can tell
>   you that you are going to need to translate from XML into something
>   like .csv. Without seeing the original data structure, I have no idea
>   how hard that might be to do.
> 
>   I hope this helped.
> 
>   On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 06:11 -0800, Julia Moretto Amâncio wrote:
>   > I want to know how I can open a exel (*.xml) file on pspp?
>   > 
>   > Thanks,
>   > Julia
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