--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your question is becoming less clear to me. For the benefit of those
> of us who don't ever use SPSS, please spell out precisely what you
are
> missing: some kind of editor that consists only of fields for
> metadata such as names and variable labels?
Yes, the variable view in SPSS is an editor where the rows are
variables, and the columns are things like variable name, variable
label, value labels, column width (similar but not the same as format),
etc. But as I remarked earlier I would not be in favor of such a
fascility (not that I have any voting rights...)
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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