Fiasco Language
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For the most part, Fiasco supports or will support the full syntax
of the transformations and utility command languages of SPSS.
Supported transformations and utilities are listed below. These are
fully supported unless otherwise indicated.
- @
- *
- ADD VALUE LABELS
- AUTORECODE
- BEGIN DATA
- BREAK
- COMMENT
- COMPUTE
- COUNT
- DATA LIST
- Column binary and unaligned positive integer binary
specifications are yet not supported
- VAX/VMS-specific format types
are not supported and might not ever be
- DO IF
- DISPLAY
- MACROS and DOCUMENTS subcommands not supported
- Other
subcommands are incomplete
- Buggy besides
- DO IF
- DO REPEAT
- DOCUMENT
- DROP DOCUMENTS
- ELSE
- ELSE IF
- END CASE
- END FILE
- END FILE TYPE
- END IF
- END LOOP
- END REPEAT
- EXECUTE
- EXIT
- FILE HANDLE
- FILE LABEL
- FILTER
- FINISH
- FORMATS
- GET
- IF
- INCLUDE
- INPUT PROGRAM
- LEAVE
- LIST
- LOOP
- MISSING VALUES
- MODIFY VARS
- N OF CASES
- NUMERIC
- PRINT
- PRINT EJECT
- PRINT FORMATS
- PRINT SPACE
- PROCESS IF
- Q
- Fiasco extension
- Synonym for EXIT
- QUIT
- Fiasco extension
- Synonym for EXIT
- RECODE
- REMARK
- Fiasco extension
- To be considered `undocumented'
- REREAD
- RENAME VARIABLES
- SAMPLE
- SAVE
- SELECT IF
- SET
- Some subcommands are fully supported
- Some are partially
supported
- Some will be supported in the future
- Some will never be
supported
- SORT CASES
- SPLIT FILE
- STRING
- SUBTITLE
- SYSFILE INFO
- TEMPORARY
- TITLE
- VALUE LABELS
- VARIABLE LABELS
- VECTOR
- WRITE
- WRITE FORMATS
- XSAVE
The following expression operators are not yet supported:
- CDFNORM and CDF.xxx
- IDF.xxx
- LAG
- NCDF.xxx
- PROBIT
- RV.xxx
The transformations and utilities listed below are not yet
supported, but will be in a future release.
- ADD FILES
- APPLY DICTIONARY
- AGGREGATE
- CLEAR TRANSFORMATIONS
- EDIT
- EXPORT
- FILE TYPE
- FLIP
- GET SAS
- GET TRANSLATE
- GSET
- IMPORT
- INFO
- INPUT MATRIX
- JOIN
- Macro facilities
- Matrix language
- MATRIX DATA
- MATCH FILES
- NUMBERED, UNNUMBERED
- PROCEDURE OUTPUT
- REPEATING DATA
- SAVE TRANSLATE
- SHOW
- TRANSLATE
- UPDATE
These utilities are not supported and probably won't ever be:
- GET DATABASE
- GET OSIRIS
- GET SCSS
- REVIEW
- SAVE SCSS
- SPSS MANAGER
Procedures that have been implemented are further described
below. No other procedures have been implemented far enough to be
useful.
- DESCRIPTIVES
- Fully implemented--please report any bugs.
- FREQUENCIES
- Median, mode, and graphs not yet supported. (Soon.)
- Percentiles not supported, and can't figure out how to do
them--anyone got any hints?
- LIST
Some further details:
- OPTIONS and STATISTICS are not supported as commands separated
from their associated procedure. This is not a high priority, since
it is difficult to implement.
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