Maybe you need to add EXECUTE. on a line by itself afterward. Otherwise, perhaps you should show us a bit of your string data? Maybe it contains some character that makes it look non-numeric, so that the conversion from string to number fails and always yields system-missing.
Debora Randall <[email protected]> writes: > Thanks so much for responding. I tried what you said and it creates a new > variable, but none of my data gets transferred over to it. > > Am I missing something? > > On 16 Feb 2011, at 20:04, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Debora Randall <[email protected]> writes: > > I am working on 0.7.5 PSPP version under X11 on a Mac OS 10.6.3. > > I have mistakenly encoded 6 of my variable types as string > > instead of numeric. When I go to change the variable to > > numeric, I lose my data. I need to be able to sum the > > variables, and it won't do that in string. > > I think you should be able to fix this with RECODE: > RECODE oldvar (CONVERT) INTO newvar. > -- > Ben Pfaff > http://benpfaff.org > -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
