xpssTemporary: Temporary modification of the data

In translateSPSS2R: Toolset for Translating SPSS-Syntax to R-Code

Description

R implementation of the SPSS TEMPORARY Function.

Usage

xpssTemporary(x)

Arguments

x	a (non-empty) data.frame or input data of class "xpssFrame".

Details

xpssTemporary signals the beginning of temporary transformation. Only the following data-management procedure takes affect on the data: , xpssCount, xpssDoIf, xpssFilter, xpssMissingValues, xpssNumeric, xpssNofCases, xpssRecode, xpssSelectIf, xpssSample, xpssString, xpssVariableLabels, xpssValueLabels,.

All the changes that are made are temporary. After the next modification the data is restored.
For example: all created variables, e.g. numeric or string variables created while xpssTemporary is in effect are temporary variables!
Any changes or modifications made to existing variables while the xpssTemporary command is in effect are also temporary!
Any variables which are created or modified after this procedure are again permanent.

	Function Status	Effect on created variables	Effect on modified variables
	Temporary ON	Any created variable is temporary.	Any change on a variables is temporary.
	Temporary OFF	Any created variable is permanent.	Any change on a variables is permanent.

The xpssTemporary function allows analyses for subgroups without affecting the data and then repeat the analysis for the file as a whole.

Author(s)

Andreas Wygrabek

See Also

Related Functions xpssDoIf xpssFilter xpssSample xpssSelectIf

Examples

data(fromXPSS)
obj <- xpssTemporary(fromXPSS)

translateSPSS2R documentation built on May 30, 2017, 4:31 a.m.