similar to: Tools For Preparing Data For Analysis

In clinical trial data preparation and many other data situations, the statistical programmer needs to merge and re-merge multiple input files countless times. A syntax for merging files that is clear and concise is very important for the statistical programmer's productivity. Here is how Vilno does it: inlist dataset1 dataset2 dataset3 ; joinby variable1 variable2 where ( var3<=var4 ) ;

In response to those who asked for a better explanation of what the Vilno software does, here's a simple example that gives some idea of what it does. LABRESULTS is a dataset with multiple rows per patient , with lab sodium measurements. It has columns: PATIENT_ID, VISIT_NUM, and SODIUM. DEMO is a dataset with one row per patient, with demographic data. It has columns: PATIENT_ID, GENDER.

Hello All, Here is the requested information. Most of it was on the original post for the "Tools For Preparing Data For Analysis" thread from last week, but it got overlooked. They are all given under an open source license. Check 'em out! ******************************************************* Vilno: data transformation software, that reads in input datasets (rows and columns),

That may sound like a stupid question, but if it confuses me, I'm sure it confuses others as well. I've tried to find that information on the R mail-group info pages, can't seem to find it. Is it something obvious? To begin a brand new discussion, you do your post as an e-mail sent to r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch . As I am doing right now. How do I do an additional post that gets

I have a couple of firewalls that are rather complicated - one has 21 interfaces, and the other has about 50 (there''s some heavy use of 802.1q, they only have half a dozen network cards). They work okay, but - compiling the rules takes a long time even on the faster servers, and restarting shorewall-lite takes between 5 and 10 minutes (during which time, only the routestopped stuff will

I'm using R 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 8.10. I'm writing partly to ask what's wrong, partly to tell other users who search that there is a work around. The General Social Survey is a long standing series of surveys provided by NORC (National Opinion Research Center). I have downloaded some years of the survey data in SPSS format (here's the site:

R has a very wide audience, clinical research, astronomy, psychology, and so on and so on. I would consider data analysis work to be three stages: data preparation, statistical analysis, and producing the report. This regards the process of getting the data ready for analysis and reporting, sometimes called "data cleaning" or "data munging" or "data wrangling". So as

Hello R-Helpers, I am not sure if it is a very simple question but I would like to use two (...) in a function, for example, this is a script where I would like to input the variable names (in one of the (...)) and the variances associated to those variables which are not calculated in the script because there is a specific software to calculate it (the other (...)) data <- function

Hi All, I am writing a simulation that examines the effects of species extinctions on ecological communties by sequentially removing individuals of a given species (sometimes using weighted probabilities) and replacing the lost individuals with species identities randomly sampled from the remaining individuals. Thus I use two dataframes. One contains all the individuals and their species

Original Message: ----------------- From: Stef Coene stef.coene@docum.org On Saturday 19 April 2003 12:10, GoMi wrote: >> Stef, if you are interested in working around this problem, maybe we >could >> meet in a chat room, and you can login to my box and see what happens, >> interested? >Yes, but not now. But I can check it out myself. >How do this DAP works? Do they

I was wondering why it is possible to read long labels from the CVS files but not from the SPSS files. I did not have much time to search for the code but I found: in foreign_0.8-10 source file var.h.in > /* Definition of the max length of a short string value, generally > eight characters. */ > #define MAX_SHORT_STRING ((SIZEOF_DOUBLE)>=8 ? ((SIZEOF_DOUBLE)+1)/2*2 > : 8)

Hello guys I am new to this list and for R too. I am wondering if there is a patch for the SPSS reading code on the foreign package, in order to be able to read long variable names. Right now read.spss() just trunc the names to 8 characters. Or if someone could help me on other way: I have to process everyday a lot of SPSS Syntax Files and Dat files that come from one system that can only export

I got the following: > library(foreign) > swal = read.spss("swallowing.sav", to.data.frame =TRUE) Warning message: In read.spss("swallowing.sav", to.data.frame = TRUE) : swallowing.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 21 encountered in system file > The bulk of the data seems to read in a usable form, but I'm curious about what might be getting lost

Hi, I have a valid SPSS .sav file (which I can open happily in SPSS v11 on Windows XP). Opening it in R2.41 on Linux we get this message :- > HSE3023 <- read.spss("HSE.sav") Error in read.spss("HSE.sav") : error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message: HSE.sav: Variable X234 indicates variable label of invalid length 256 Now variable X234 has indeed a

Hi! My wife needs the good, old SPSS 11.5 installed on Linux. Thanks to this forum, Wine is running as it should. But now I have a problem with SPSS: After starting the program (installation was no problem), I just see the frame of the window (which is empty - I can see the window behind it), and the first dialog screen in the middle of it. Unfortunately the dialog-screen (there you can open a

Trying to open some SPSS .sav files (saved with SPSS 15) gives the following: read.spss('/data/big/unzipped_ukda/seh3767/3767SPSS_570D6A086C9A1B0636F13255F25A58C1/prgrp95.sav') Error in read.spss("/data/big/unzipped_ukda/seh3767/3767SPSS_570D6A086C9A1B0636F13255F25A58C1/prgrp95.sav"): error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message:

Hola, Tengo problemas a la hora de cargar un archivo que originalmente está en SPSS. Trabajo con Fedora y uso R mediante el plugin Rgedit en gedit. Además en Fedora no tengo SPSS, sino PSPP Para cargar el archivo he probado estas dos cosas (escribo también el mensaje de error que me genera R): >library_(foreign) >read.spss("guille.sav",to.data.frame = T) Error en

I once upon a time worked with DAP and watched LDAP being created as something that actually could work... Showing my age here. What little I have done with LDAP has been very clearly delineated so that I knew what was being done. Here, with Samba, and I guess actually, it is AD, I have not found that. Yet. But there are always tools. So I am looking at: phpLDAPadmin I know these

Hi again, Typo in the last email. Should read "about 40 standard deviations". Jim On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > People want different levels of automation in the software they use. > What concerns many of us is the desire for the function >

*I am running Samba on CentOS 7 and for some reason I cannot get the smb daemon to start (Samba version 4.9.1). This is the status after a failed start:* smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon ???? Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) ???? Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2019-10-14 10:29:59 EDT; 31s ago ???????? Docs: man:smbd(8)