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From | Carlos Avellaneda Suárez <carlos.avellaneda8@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Two bugs with -usespss- |
Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:07:02 -0500 |
Dear Sergiy, Thanks for your help and your prompt answer. The link of the FAQ of -usespss- that you provided clarified completely my situation. This post is just to close the thread. Best regards, Carlos 2014-03-04 17:04 GMT-05:00 Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>: > Carlos, see > http://radyakin.org/transfer/usespss/faq/usespss_faq.html > Best, Sergiy Radyakin > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Carlos Avellaneda Suárez > <carlos.avellaneda8@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear Sergiy (and other members of Statalist who might be interested), >> >> Talking about -usespss-, I can't install it using Stata 13, but >> recently I was able to install it in an older version of Stata (i.e. >> Stata 10). I wonder why this happens. >> The command I used: >> . ssc install usespss >> >> The error message that I get: >> nothing to install >> >> I hope you (or other members of Statalist) can help me out with this issue. >> >> Best regards, >> Carlos >> >> 2014-03-04 16:33 GMT-05:00 Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>: >>> Dear Timothy, I confirm both problems. First one is a pure bug. Second >>> is caused by blocking behavior of SPSS, which blocks the file for >>> reading when it is open in SPSS. Closing the file in SPSS solves the >>> issue. Best, Sergiy Radyakin. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Timothy Mak <tshmak@hku.hk> wrote: >>>> Dear Sergiy and others who are interested, >>>> >>>> I just want to say I like -usespss- a lot. I've found 2 bugs which I hope can be addressed at some point. >>>> >>>> 1. When writing variable labels, -usespss- truncates them to 81 characters. However, Stata's limit is 80 characters. This can cause crashes in Stata, although usually not immediately. >>>> 2. I encountered this while using it on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine running 32-bit Stata: If I have a SPSS dataset opened by SPSS 20, and I try to open it at the same time using -usespss-, Stata immediately crashes. >>>> >>>> But thanks very much for writing -usespss-. It's been very useful. >>>> >>>> Timothy Mak >>>> School of Public Health >>>> The University of Hong Kong >>>> >>>> Tel (+852) 2819 9914 >>>> Fax (+852) 2855 9528 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> * >>>> * For searches and help try: >>>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >>>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >>>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >>> * >>> * For searches and help try: >>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/