Re: save translate error

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:58:42AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:04:25PM +0100, news wrote:
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>      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.

The manual could definitely be clearer, either way.