| Date: | Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:30 -0400 |
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| Reply-To: | Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com> |
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| Sender: | "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: DATASET duplicating, SPSS 14: Best practice? |
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| In-Reply-To: | <E0428445172CB7469BF187FF4D00514902C052E5@CHIEMAIL1.spss.co m> |
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I'd asked,
>>I have a dataset named Thompson_exampledata. It is active. I want to
>>make a copy of it in a new dataset named Thompson_exampledata. The
>>following syntax seems to have worked:
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>>NEW FILE.
>>DATASET NAME Thompson_ToWide.
>>DATASET ACTIVATE Thompson_exampledata.
>>DATASET COPY Thompson_ToWide.
>>DATASET ACTIVATE Thompson_ToWide.
>>
>>It seems a little clumsy. Is there another, better way?
At 08:54 AM 4/22/2006, Oliver, Richard wrote:
>All you need is the last two commands in your example:
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>dataset copy newdatasetname. /*make a copy of the active dataset.
>dataset activate newdatasetname. /*activate the copy.
And Richard Oliver is quite right. What I'd missed is that
DATASET COPY <name>.
creates its destination dataset, if that does not exist. (And that is
documented.)
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