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Extracting non-continuous variables from SPSS file

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Subject: Extracting non-continuous variables from SPSS file
From: "Jan Ivanouw" <ivanouw@post8.tele.dk>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:34:53 +0200
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Dear List members

Excuse a very simple question from a newbee:

I have an SPSS data file with 3000+ variables which is updated on a regular 
basis. I want to keep this as an SPSS file, but I would like to be able to 
extract different subsets of non-continuous variable for analyses in S-PLUS 
data frames.
I have tried the import.data function, but it seems it will only extract a 
*continuous* set of variables (with arguments as StartCol = "217", EndCol = 
"219"). Does there exist a way to 
1. extract non-continuous variables
2. by their SPSS variable names rather than by column numbers

Jan Ivanouw, PhD
Copenhagen
e-mail: ivanouw@post8.tele.dk



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