They ought to work, but they don't have that syntax. /KEEP and /DROP take a list of variables, not a list of expressions or conditions on variables.
John Darrington <[email protected]> writes: > According to the manual, the /KEEP and /DROP subcommands to SAVE should also > work. > > So if they don't, then please report it as a bug. > > J' > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:36:20PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: > Sorry folks - Select cases, unselected cases are deleted did the trick. > > > > Thx > > Rob > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Rob > Malpass > Sent: 19 August 2011 14:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Cleaning data - remove cases > > > > Hi all > > > > Sorry if this is obvious but I have looked in the manuals and I can't > find > what I'm after. > > > > My other post referred to a huge dataset I'm playing with. Simple data > cleaning led me to find around 800 cases with bad data. I can filter > them > but I can't find a command anywhere to drop them. It's been a few years > since I used SPSS but the standard procedure was to do something like: > > SAVE OUTFILE="xyz" > > /KEEP filter_$="OK" > > > > There doesn't seem (please tell me if I'm wrong) to be a way to do this > in > PSPP. > > > > Cheers > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
