A comment is a line of text in a program that is not read by the computer as a command. Comments do not affect how the program functions; they exist purely for the humans reading and writing the program. Comments help the reader understand what the program is doing. In general, it is good practice to use brief but descriptive comments in your code. Your comments should be clear enough that a reader completely unfamiliar with your work can understand what your program is doing.
In SPSS syntax, placing an asterisk (*) or a forward-slash followed by an asterisk (/*) at the start of a line will turn all text on that line into a comment. Hitting the Enter key will create a new, un-commented line. Typically, comments in SPSS syntax are color-coded with the color gray.
1 - Select "Generate Authorization Code" and click the product and version you want to generate an authorization code for
Note: if you want to add a module to an existing installation, then choose "Add feature to your installed product" instead.
2 - Quantity Purchased and Quantity Available are displayed.
3 - Choose "Generate" to generate a code from the Quantity Available. Choose "View" to display already generated codes.
4 - If there is no Quantity Available, only "View" is displayed
5 - After "Generate" enter the "Requested Quantity".
6 - Choose the create One or Multiple codes for the Requested quantity
7 - If applicable, select add-on modules to be bundled with the base code (available quantity is displayed in brackets)
8 - If desired, enter an expiration date, to limit the validity of the codes in time. Or leave blank for permanent code.
9 - Customer Name, Order #, Purchase Order Number, Comments are optional fields
10 - License Usage type is generally set to "New License". Leave default unless instructed otherwise.
11 - Choose "Review & Generate" to review the request
12 - Choose Generate to confirm ( or Back to make updates)
13 - The authorization code has been created and is ready for "download".
What if you created an authorization code with wrong options and wish to delete?
Check this article to open a ticket for key deletion and submit an automatic (AUTO_DELETE) request to delete your authorization code
When creating variables, the SPSS keyword to will create variables with consecutive numbering. When usingto in syntax to refer to variables that already exist in the data set,SPSS assumes that variables are sequential, or positionally consecutive (all variables between the firstvariable listed and the last variable listed in the command will be included).There are some commands in SPSS that will use the keyword to in both apositionally and a numerically consecutive manner, depending on whether existingvariables are being modified in some way or whether new variables are beingcreated. Some of these commands include autorecode, recode,aggregate and rename variables.
The recode command recodes the values of either numeric or stringvariables. There are several input keywords that you can use with thiscommand, including lo, lowest, hi, highest, thru,missing, sysmis and else. The keyword thruincludes the specified end value. The keywords lowest and highest (and lo and hi) include user-defined missing but notsystem-missing values. The keyword missing specifies bothuser-defined missing and system missing, while the keyword sysmis onlyspecifies system-missing. Output keywords include copy and sysmis. There are other keywords that can be used when recoding stringvariables, but we will not cover those here.
The variable labels command allows you to assign labels to yourvariables. Doing so is an important part of developing a codebook.We strongly recommend that all data sets have a codebook, even if the researcheris not planning on sharing the data with others. The codebook reminds youof all of the details of your data set, which is important when you have to comeback to the data at a later time.
The variable attribute command was introduced in SPSS version 14 andallows users to assign attributes to variables in the active dataset. Theattributes are saved with the data dictionary. In the examples below, weassign attributes that tell us what type of response was required for q1and what formula was used to create the variable nvrndmean. Thistype of information is important to keep with the dataset, especially if thewritten code book becomes lost.
The codebook command was introduced in SPSS version 17 and updated inversion 18. The codebook command displays dictionary informationand summary statistics for variables in the active dataset. For nominaland ordinal variables, summary statistics include counts and percents. Forscale (continuous) variables, the mean, standard deviation and quartiles aredisplayed. The split file status of the dataset is ignored, but the filterstatus is honored for computing summary statistics.
You can permanently delete cases from your dataset with the select ifcommand. Cases coded as 1 will remain in your dataset; cases coded as 0(or missing) will be deleted from the dataset. Once you run the selectif command, you will not be able to recover the cases that were deleted.If you delete cases that you did not intend to delete, close the data filewithout saving it and reopen the data file.
SPSS Programmability Extension allows you to expand the capabilities of SPSSby adding new procedures written in such languages as Python, R Java and the.NET version of Microsoft Visual Basic. You can download these pluginsfrom the IBM SPSS website. Please note that you need to install theversion of the plugin that matches the version of SPSS that you are running.Please see -142.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/spss-stats-programmability/for more information.
A small concession is that it is probably not to hard to create a tool for translating very small, specific subsets of SPSS to R. For example, if you have a chunk of code for reading in CSV files, then you could use regular expressions to extract the useful bits from the SPSS code and autogenerate some R code from them. In most instances however it will be far easier and faster to manually port the code yourself.
(Now, to be fair to R, there very well may be a way to do the same thing. The talk demonstrated quite clearly that using a plugin like R-Studio would make life much easier. I know there are a number of GUIs for R. If you know of one that does allows you to paste the code, please share in the comments.
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Example: The data given below represents the scores of 10 students in a final examination. Recode the data giving code "1" to scores between 75 - 100, code 2 to scores between 61 - 74, code 3 to scores between 41 - 60 and code 4 to scores between 0 - 40.
SPSS allows you to use Syntax code to reshape data from wide to long format, and vice versa. Below are data sets repeatedly measured in wide and long format. Note that the example data contain two participants measured on two outcome variables (weight and calories), under three different time points.
From a quick look at your code, it seems to me that you are only using the function setup_ruODK from the repvisforODK package - this function is actually just a simple wrap of the ru_setup function from the ruODK package and meant to be used with one single parameter, the remaining parameters being fed by the defaults. It is a convenience function but does not bring any additional functionality compared to ruODK. In fact, I would probably define this function slightly differently with only one parameter and the default sets in the function body so that it does not have exactly the same behavior as ru_setup when you set all the parameters manually (as you did in your script) and I think such a variant of the ru_setup function would probably be better placed in the ruODK package rather than in repvisforODK - apologies for the confusion. If you don't use any other function from repvisforODK, then I would rather advise that you remove the dependency to this package. If you want to generate and customise automated HTML reports, then you are obviously more than welcome to keep it and encouraged to use it
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Hello @Florian_May
Thank you for your views. I quite agree with the fact that if I have ODK central data in R then analysing the same in R would be a natural choice. As a matter of fact, I started by doing the same.
Thanks @Debjit_Biswas1, I will test your code on my own forms to see how it performs and investigate whether ruODK::form_xml could be used in this case (the XML structure probably less straightforward to parse, especially if the form has a complex group structure, but this should be feasible). Keep you posted in 1-2 weeks.
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