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Re: st: Two bugs with -usespss-
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Two bugs with -usespss-
Date
Tue, 4 Mar 2014 17:04:02 -0500
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
<[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>:
>> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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