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Re: st: Two bugs with -usespss-
From
Carlos Avellaneda Suárez <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]>:
> 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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