Re: Data transformation in the Mac environment

[ftr]

On 07/03/2014 08:05, John Darrington wrote:
> 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 would have done this with with several
If (var1 = 1 and var2 =1) newvar = 1.
if (var1 = 1 and var2 =2) newvar = 2.
etc.

So I learned I guess an old trick, but I did not know it.

Thanks

ftr