I have a spss syntax file that I need to run on multiple files each in a different directory with the same name as the file, and I am trying to too do this automatically. So far I have tried doing it with syntax code and am trying to avoid doing python is spss, but all I have been able to get is the code bellow which does not work.
VECTOR v = key.
LOOP #i = 1 to 41.
GET
FILE=CONCAT('C:\Users\myDir\otherDir\anotherDir\output\',v(#i),'\',v(#i),'.sav').
DATASET NAME Data#i WINDOW=FRONT.
*Do stuff to the opened file
END LOOP.
EXE.
key is the only column in a file that contains all the names of the files.
I am having trouble debugging since I don't know how to print to the screen if it is possible. So my question is: is there a way to get the code above to work, or another option that accomplishes the same thing?
You can't use an expression like that on a GET command. There are two choices. Use the macro language to put this together (see DEFINE in the Command Syntax Reference via the Help menu) or use the SPSSINC PROCESS FILES extension command or your own Python code to select the files with a wildcard.
The extension command or a Python program require the free Python Essentials available from the SPSS Community website or available with your Statistics version.
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I have just started learning the Forth programming language.
I'm using Gforth on Ubuntu. In Gforth interactive console, I want to do indentation but it requires changing line. Enter key didn't work, it executed code. For comparison, for example, when one tests JavaScript code in web browser console, shift+enter change line without executing code. I want something like that. What key should I press? Is there a way other than using text editors like vim?
Best.
Gforth doesn't support multiline editing (see the manual).
A workaround is to edit a file in your favorite editor in another window and reload this file in Gforth console as:
include /tmp/scratch.fs
An external file can be also edited in Gforth console via a command like:
"vim /tmp/scratch.fs" system
So a one-liner for that is:
"vim /tmp/scratch.fs" system "/tmp/scratch.fs" included
That can be wrapped into a definition as:
: scratch "vim /tmp/scratch.fs" system "/tmp/scratch.fs" included ;
So the word scratch will open an editor and than load the edited file.
NB: if you use a quite old build of Gforth, you have to use s" ccc" instead of "ccc" for string literals.
To conditionally include/exclude some parts in a file the words [defined] and [if] can be used; to erase the previous instance of the loaded definitions the word marker can be used as:
[defined] _clear [if] _clear [then]
marker _clear
\ some definitions
\ ...
Take into account that usual control-flow words can be used in definitions only.
I'm using SPSS 25 syntax to open and process a set of datafiles. I would like these syntax files to be as portable as possible. For that reason, I want the user to be able to select the file locations at runtime without having to recode the syntax itself.
I'm running Windows 10, although hopefully that doesn't matter. I do have the Python plugin for SPSS, although ideally this would be a base SPSS syntax solution.
In SPSS right now, I'm doing this:
GET
FILE='C:\Users\xkcd\studies\project\rawdata'+
'\reallyraw\veryraw.sav'
PASSWORD='CorrectHorseBatteryStaple'.
DATASET NAME Demo WINDOW=FRONT.
In R, I would do this:
message("Where is the veryraw.sav file?")
demo<-fread(file.choose())
Ideally, the user would, at runtime, select the individual files one at a time.
Less ideally, the user would select a folder in which all of the files, with known names.
I could use FILE HANDLE so that the user would only have to hardcode a few folder locations, but that's less than ideal - I really would rather that the user isn't editing the syntax at all.
Thanks in advance!
Following up on the idea of a fully automated process - the following code will work assuming there is a specific file name you need to run your code on, and only one copy exists in the folder you are searching. This is possible to run on drive C: directly, but will take much less time to run if you can narrow down the path:
* this will create a text file that has the path of the required file.
HOST COMMAND=['dir /s /b "C:\Users\somename\*required file name.sav" > C:\Users\somename\tempname.sps'].
* now to read the name and put in in a handle.
DATA LIST file = "C:\Users\somename\tempname.sps" fixed / pth 1-500 (a).
exe.
string cmd(a500).
compute cmd=concat("file handle myfile / name='", rtrim(pth), "'.").
write out="C:\Users\somename\tempname.sps" /cmd.
exe.
* inserting the new syntax will activate the handle.
insert file = "C:\Users\somename\tempname.sps".
Now you can use the handle myfile in the syntax, e.g:
get file=myfile.
I am trying to print data using
*EL PRINT
to a separate file other that jobname.dat file.
Is there any way to do this?
PS: I know how to export the data from the odb file.
Thanks
As far as I know you can't reroute that kind of input-file keyword output request to a different file. I've listed some alternatives below:
As you mention, you can script it using the Abaqus/Python API.
You can manually print results to a file of your choosing from the Viewer.
You can access the results file for postprocessing using a Fortran or C++ program (search for ABQMAIN).
You can access results and write them to a file of your choosing during the analysis using the Fortran subroutine URDFIL.
I have verified that I can run both normal office and python macros from within office but I still haven't figured out how to run one (even the hello world one) from the command line.
I have googled and looked at other answers here but I'm still not entirely clear how to run an open office macro from the command line:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8232
suggests to use:
office writer.odt "macro://Standard.Module1.Macro1()"
I have also seen:
office "macro://Standard.Module1.Macro1()" writer.odt
Either way around this just opens the document and and neither runs a macro nor reports an error.
Whereas How to call an existing LibreOffice python macro from a python script
suggests to run office listening on a port and communicate via that.
If I can get that far I still need to find API documentation that will explain how to insert an anchor (as per my other question
asciidoc: is there a way to create an anchor that will be visible in libreoffice writer?)
I'm using RHEL7 for context.
update
oowriter "foo.odt" macro:///Standard.Module1.addXref
works with a office basic macro.
I still haven't figured out the python one.
One issue is I can't find any debug information to look at. Are there any log files anywhere?
Another issue is which version of python to use.
The RHEL package installs site packages for python 2.7.
>rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/writer
libreoffice-writer-4.3.7.2-5.el7_2.1.x86_64
>rpm -ql libreoffice-pyuno-4.3.7.2-5.el7_2.1
...
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/uno.py
Libreoffice5.1 includes 3.5 with the distro:
>/opt/libreoffice5.1/program/python --version
Python 3.5.0
So to start with I am looking for a hello world python example that pairs a known version of python with a known version of office. Preferably either of the two above (writer 4.3.7 & python 2.7? or writer 5.1 & python 3.5).
update2
Using python3.5 as installed with office5.1 I have a working hello world using the following:
import uno
# get the uno component context from the PyUNO runtime
localContext = uno.getComponentContext()
# create the UnoUrlResolver
resolver = localContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
"com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", localContext )
# connect to the running office
ctx = resolver.resolve( "uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext" )
smgr = ctx.ServiceManager
# get the central desktop object
desktop = smgr.createInstanceWithContext( "com.sun.star.frame.Desktop",ctx)
# access the current writer document
model = desktop.getCurrentComponent()
# access the document's text property
text = model.Text
# create a cursor
cursor = text.createTextCursor()
# insert the text into the document
text.insertString( cursor, "Hello World", 0 )
This works with either version of open office via:
/usr/bin/oowriter --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"
So the final part is to add the cross reference.
It looks like the command needs an extra slash. This worked for me on Ubuntu:
lowriter "Untitled 1.odt" macro:///Standard.Module1.SayHello
That calls this method in the module named Module1 under My Macros & Dialogs / Standard:
Sub SayHello
MsgBox("Hello, World!")
End Sub
The above approach only works for Basic macros. For Python macros, the standard command line approach is to connect to a listening instance of Office. Warning: This will be much (perhaps 10x) slower than running from within Office.
The link you suggested shows how to call a Python macro from a different Python script, which is more complex than what we need here. Instead, put the connecting code (starting with localContext = uno.getComponentContext()) and macro code in the same script. For an example of what should go in the script, see "First play with the Python shell to get familiar" at http://christopher5106.github.io/office/2015/12/06/openoffice-libreoffice-automate-your-office-tasks-with-python-macros.html.
As far as creating anchors, there are a number of different objects in LibreOffice that can function as anchors:
Headings
Bookmarks - example code to create them
Tables and Frames
Sections
Images and OLE Objects
This list was copied from How do I check for broken internal links in Star Basic?. In your other question you also asked about checking for broken links, so hopefully that question is helpful.
One way to create a hyperlink is to edit the HyperLinkURL property of some text. For example, say there is a bookmark called MyBookmark. Then the following code changes the currently selected text into a hyperlink:
viewcursor = currentController.getViewCursor()
viewcursor.HyperLinkURL = "#MyBookmark"
EDIT:
Regarding which version of python to use, currently LibreOffice uses python 3 and OpenOffice uses python 2.
For debugging information, you can set a checkpoint in the Basic IDE. For python, I use the logging module. OpenOffice also has various log files but I normally do not find them helpful.
Regarding problems with python, did you try the link I posted? If so, how far did you get?
I do not think you will find many RHEL examples. Try to get it working on a desktop distro like Ubuntu first, and then adapt that approach to RHEL.
I'm planning to do a program with Lua that will first of all read specific files
and get information from those files. So my first question is whats the "my documents" path name? I have searched a lot of places, but I'm unable to find anything. My second question is how can I use the first four letters of a file name to see which one is the newest made?
Finding the files in "my documents" then find the newest created file and read it.
The reading part shouldn't be a problem, but navigating to "my documents" and finding the newest created file in a folder.
For your first question, depends how robust you want your script to be. You could use Lua's builtin os.getenv() to get a variety of environment vars related to user, such as USERNAME, USERPROFILE, HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH. Example:
username = os.getenv('USERNAME')
dir = 'C:\\users\\' .. username .. '\\Documents'
For the second question, there is no builtin mechanism in Windows to have the file creation or modification timestamp as part of the filename. You could read the creation or modification timestamp, via a C extension you create or using an existing Lua library like lfs. Or you could read the contents of a folder and parse the filenames if they were named according to the pattern you mention. Again there is nothing built into Lua to do this, you would either use os.execute() or lfs or, again, your own C extension module, or combinations of these.