Re: Data transformation in the Mac environment

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:19:09PM -0500, Mark Levine wrote:
     
     I have had no problem with individual variable recoding. I would, however, 
like to do a variable transformation of the form (If VARX = 1 and VARY =1, then 
let NEWVAR = 1), i.e. a simple boolean expression. 


There are a number of ways this could be achived (for example you could use 
RECODE ... INTO ) but in my opinion, the simplest way is:

COMPUTE newvar = (VARX = 1) AND (VARY=1).
     
     I have done this in SPSS years ago and can see how it would be done on the 
line entry version of PSPP, but is this sort of transformation possible in the 
Mac/GUI environment? I accept that installing a LINUX OS, etc. would be an 
obvious solution but my software skills are marginal and that installation path 
seems daunting.

There should be no difference in behaviour between PSPP on the Mac and on other 
platforms.  They should both behave identically.
Having said that, GNU and GNU/Linux are the systems that are recommended, and 
which have been tested
most thoroughly.

It's probably a discussion for another forum, but in my experience 
modern GNU/Linux distributions are magnetudes less "daunting" than Windows and 
certainly
than the Mac ... less frustration, better for your sanity.
     

J'
     

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