Re: save translate error

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:04:25PM +0100, news wrote:
     
     
     On 13/01/2015 19:05, John Darrington wrote:
     >On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:28:49PM +0100, ftr wrote:
     >
     >      A second question with the save translate command.
     >      The manual says (p.91) that missing can be recoded with the command 
line
     >      /missing = recode.
     >
     >      But into what ?
     >
     >My version of the manual says:
     >
     >"Specify MISSING=RECODE to output numeric user-missing values like
     >system-missing values and string user-missing values as all spaces."
     
     I know but I don't understand. This is why I ask.
     Does it mean that all kinds of missing types produce blanks ?
     Or that user missing value are set to sysmiss ?
     
I understand it to mean the latter.   

It seems to be saying that user-missing values will be recoded into 
 -  in the case of numeric variables: system missing values; OR
 -  in the case of string variables: values containing all blanks.


I will check the code to make sure my understanding is correct.
Maybe we need to reword the manual to make this clearer.

J'

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