Fellow Maptituders, I have uploaded a new utility to Directions Magazine called StatBridge. It was inspired by Dick Hoskins' comment in Message #3844 about accessing Maptitude data in stats packages and vice-versa.
http://www.directionsmag.com/files/index.php/view/762 I'm calling this one an alpha release because I haven't figured out what other functionality belongs in this app. So far it only does three things: export an entire data table to Stata, export a selection set to Stata, or import a Stata dataset into Maptitude. I've tried to write this in a simple modular format so that others can write input/output for other stats packages (R, SAS, SPSS, ...?) Essentially, the export function writes the contents of the table to a tempfile (csv format), creates a dofile that would import the tempfile, and invokes Stata. The import function creates a dofile to write a Stata dataset to a tempfile (csv format), then opens the resultant file as a table in Maptitude. Not exactly rocket science, but it works. Or at least it works with one exception. The import into Maptitude function seems to be limited to about 1500 fields. Not entirely sure why this is the case... but a dataset that large is cumbersome to work with anyhow. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
