My dataset has three date fields (adate10): Period, Version, and Created. The values for each field are identical for all cases. Let's say the values are:
Period = 10/01/17
Version = 11/15/17
Created = 11/25/17
I would like to pass all three dates into a SAVE OUTFILE='C:\Users\Inventory ? ? ?... command so the file name is:
C:\MyData\Inventory p20171001 v20171115 c20171125.sav
How I can pass the values of these three date fields into the save command? I assume Python is the way to go, but cannot figure out the syntax. I see several solutions at the link below, but they all involve only one date field; I have three. (And even when I tried with one date I couldn't get any of them to work).
http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/include-value-from-variable-in-filename-when-saving-td4326879.html
Here you go with a little Python:
BEGIN PROGRAM.
import spss, spssdata
# names of date variables (case sensitive)
varlist = ['period', 'version', 'created']
# fetch dates from dataset and format them to YYYYMMDD
data = spssdata.Spssdata(indexes=(varlist), cvtDates=(varlist))
dates = [date.strftime("%Y%m%d") for date in data.fetchone()]
data.close()
# Create 'save command' command and submit it to spss
spss.Submit(r"""
SAVE OUTFILE = 'C:\MyData\Inventory p{0} v{1} c{2}.sav'.
""".format(*dates))
END PROGRAM.
You can get the results you need with syntax only:
TEMPORARY.
select if $casenum=1.
format Period Version Created (f11).
write out="C:\MyData\save with dates in name.sps"
/"save out='C:\MyData\Inventory p", Period, " v", Version, " c", Created, ".sav' ".
exe.
insert file="C:\MyData\save with dates in name.sps".
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I am trying to create a custom function on a form to define a week Number.
I have created a table that defines the week number.
Example WeekNo, StartDay, End Day
example: WeekNo 1 StartDay = 3/29/2020, End Day 4/4/2020
I have a Date box on my form if I enter a date of 3/29/2020
I would like 1 to be populated in my week number box.
On my form in the row source I have designed a Dlookup query
=DLookup("[WeekNumber]", "tblWeekNumber", "[Startdate] >= " & frmSearchNew.dt_Date & "") & [EndDate] <= frmSearchNew.dtDate
When I change to from view I get the error the record source specified on this form does not exist.
The table tblWeekNumber has the fields ID, WeekNo, StartDay and EndDay.
Where am I going wrong? any help is appreciated.
There are quite a few issues with the DLookup that you have put together.
Firstly, the field that you are looking for and the fields that you are using as criteria do not appear to match those in the table - WeekNumber/WeekNo, StartDate/StartDay, EndDate/EndDay;
Next, the logic for the lookup is wrong. You are trying to find a the week number that has a start date that is greater than the entered date, and an end date that is less than the entered date. What you should be looking for is a start date before the entered date, and an end date after the entered date.
Finally, dates are a bit funny in Access. You need to wrap them in '#' so that Access knows they are dates, and you should also take care to disambiguate them - 03/04/2020 could be either 3rd April or 4th March depending on you nationality.
Putting it all together, the final control source should look like:
=DLookUp("WeekNo","tblWeekNumber","StartDay<=#" & Format([dt_Date],"dd-mmm-yyyy") & "# AND EndDay>=#" & Format([dt_Date],"dd-mmm-yy") & "#")
Regards,
I have a data set in which the date of an event is represented by two variables: month of the event and the year of the event. I would like to turn these two variables into a single variable, preferably formatted as a date/time variable. How would the syntax for doing this in SPSS look?
NB. I don't have a variable specifying which day (1-31) of the month a date is (and the day isn't important either). I was thinking of either just using a date format that only include the month and year, or specifying that all events happened on the first of each month.
Image illustrating how the variables look:
Image illustrating how the new date variable should look
From the menu:
Transform/Date and Time Wizard/Create a Date/time variables from...
Then select your Month variable to the Month field, Year variable to Year field
Press Next
Put a name into the 'Result Variable` field (e.g.: "MonthYear")
From the "Output format" choose whichever format you want (e.g.: "mmm yyyy")
I would suggest to "Paste" the syntax, in case you need it later ;)
Press Finish and you will get a syntax looking like this (based on the above inputs):
COMPUTE MonthYear=DATE.DMY(1, Month, Year).
VARIABLE LABELS MonthYear "".
VARIABLE LEVEL MonthYear (SCALE).
FORMATS MonthYear (MOYR8).
VARIABLE WIDTH MonthYear(8).
EXECUTE.
I'm using Tableau Desktop, my data are like this:
KPI,date,monthValue
coffee break,01/06/2015,10.50
coffee break,01/07/2015,8.30
and I want to build a table like this
KPI, year(date), last value
coffee time, 2015, 8.30
How can I set a calculated field in order to show me the last value available in that year? I tried to do:
LOOKUP([MonthValue], LAST())
But it didn't work and tells me 'cannot mix aggregate and non-aggregate', so I did:
LOOKUP(sum([MonthValue]), LAST())
But it didn't work too. How should I proceed?
If you are using Tableau 9 then you can do this with an LOD calc that looks for the max value in your date field and then checks if the current date value is the same as the max date value.
[Date] == {fixed: max([Date])}
As you can see in the example below when you use the calc as a filter you will only get the last row from your example above.
UPDATE: to get the values per year you can do something like:
Here I am using a table calculation to find the max date per year and then ranking those dates and filtering down to the latest date in each year (which will be the one that has a rank equal to 1).
!max date is WINDOW_MAX(ATTR(Date))
!rank is RANK(Date)
You need to make sure that the table calculations are computer in the correct way (in this case across the values of each year).
I'm using Rails and MongoMapper as my working platform.
I want to generate a custom key with the help of month and year. The possible format would be YYYYMM####,
YYYY is current YEAR which I can get as Date.today.strftime("%Y")
MM is current Month Which I can get as Date.tody.strftime("%m")
After that ### is incremented integer value
I get the last job with the code
jobForLastnum = Job.last(:order => :_id.desc)
lastJobNum = jobForLastnum.job_number
Now my question is I received the job_number as '201305100'
I want to split it with custom length like, ['2013','05','100']
I know how to split a string in ruby and I successfully did that but i got result as individual character like
['2','0','1','3','0','5','1','0','0']
With the help of this I could retrieve the year:
lastJobNum.to_s[0,4]
With the help of this I got the month:
lastJobNum.to_s[4,2]
But after that there is custom length string. How can I get all the data in a single array?
You can simply use ranges:
c = "2013121003"
[c[0..3], c[4..5], c[6..-1]]
You can also use String#unpack:
"20131210034".unpack("A4A2A*")
Or with regexp as suggested by tessi, using String#scan:
c = "2013121003"
c.scan(/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d+)/)
In all cases, this will return an array with the year, month, and job id as strings.
A regexp can help you here.
jobNumber = 201305100
year, month, job_id = jobNumber.to_s.match(/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d*)/)[1..3]
First, we convert the jobNumber to a String. Then we throw a regexp at it. The regexp has three capture groups ((\d{4}) four numbers for the year, (\d{2}) two numbers for the month, (\d*) any remaining number for the job_id).
The job_number.to_s.match(...) returns a MatchData object, which we can access by its first three capture groups with [1..3] (see the documentation).
Finally, we assign the resulting Array to our variables year, month, and job_id.
year
#=> 2013
month
#=> 05
job_id
#=> 100
I'm trying to run the following db command against Informix:
delete from table1
where u_id in (select u_id
from table2
where c_id in (select c_id
from ptable
where name = 'Smith'
and dob = '29-08-1946'));
I pass this in as a string to the db.ExecuteNonQuery method in the MS Data Application block and I get the above error?
To get the date format '29-08-1946' to work, you need your DBDATE environment variable set to a value such as "DMY4-" (or "DMY4/"). These are standard variations for the UK (I used them for years; I now use "Y4MD-" exclusively, which matches both ISO 8601:2004 (Date formats) and ISO 9075 (SQL), except when debugging someone else's environment). There are other environment variables that can affect date formatting - quite a lot of them, in fact - but DBDATE takes priority over the others, so it is the big sledgehammer that fixes the problem.
One of the problems is that your notation using a plain string is not portable between US and UK (and ISO) settings of DBDATE. If you have a choice, the neutral constructor for dates is the MDY() function:
WHERE dob = MDY(8,29,1946)
This works regardless of the setting of DBDATE. You can probably use TO_DATE() too:
SELECT TO_DATE('29-08-1946', '%d-%m-%Y') FROM dual;
This generated '1946-08-29 00:00:00.00000' for me - the function generates a DATETIME YEAR TO FRACTION(5) value, but those convert reliably to DATE values in Informix.
You can also use the DATE() function or an explicit cast to DATE (either CAST('29-08-1946' AS DATE) or '29-08-1946'::DATE), but both of those are subject to the whims of the locale of the users.
Your date field is improperly formatted. Since there is no 29th month in the year 1946 that is what is causing the error.
I'd try just swapping the month and day. 08-29-1946.
The way the day and month parts of a date string are read in can depend on your computer's culture settings.
It is always safer to pass date strings to a database in the form 'dd-MMM-yyyy' (i.e. '29-aug-1946')
It's even safer to pass them as YYYY-MM-DD, the dd-MMM-yyyy in that example will fail on a server with a (for example) French locale.