On Saturday 13 Feb 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> The http://jalvesaq.googlepages.com/sav2dat.html shell script can
> probably be altered to give you the output you'd prefer if it's already
> making the content available, IOW doing the manual meld for you if it's
> mechanical.
I'm sure it could, but I'm not sure whether it's worth the effort (apart from
as an exercise that is). Becky is indicating that she is going to reply to
the tutor concerned and ask if there is a way to get this into a spreadsheet
and kind of wonder how the students are supposed to read it when they are not
told they need SPSS. The real reason behind it is to see if the tutor can
give the information out in another format, to save all this hassle. After
all the class is supposed to be in human biology, not computer science :-)
I've had a look at the script and vaguely understand what it is doing. The
author ends it with a nicely laconic statement:
You still have to:
- edit the file \"$outfile\" to get the exact position
of variable names that are in the file \"$datfile\".
"
which kind of leads me to believe he thought it was too hard to put it all
together ;-)
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