Re: how open exel files in pspp?

[Andrew Choens]

Glad to hear it.

On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 00:13 -0200, Júlia Moretto Amâncio wrote:
>  
> thanks a lot, Andrew. It helps and works!
> regards, Julia
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Andrew Choens 
>         To: Julia Moretto Amâncio 
>         Cc: address@hidden 
>         Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:03 PM
>         Subject: Re: how open exel files in pspp?
>         
>         
>         Umm. You've got a couple of different things going on there.
>         
>         Do you want to open an Excel file (.xls, xlst) or XML (.xml).
>         If you
>         want to open an excel file (spreadsheet), the easiest way is
>         probably to
>         export it from Excel to a comma separated values file (.csv)
>         which pspp
>         and psppire can both read. I have also been known to use R
>         (R-CRAN) to
>         import data directly from excel files and export them as .sav
>         file.
>         
>         The first way is probably what you are looking for. Once you
>         export your
>         data from Excel or OpenOffice.org as a .csv file, you can
>         import into
>         PSPP really easily. See:
>         
>         File --> Import Delimited Text Data
>         
>         If you are trying to import a .xml file, I can't help you. I
>         don't do a
>         lot of web stuff and I'm pretty ignorant about XML files, but
>         I can tell
>         you that you are going to need to translate from XML into
>         something
>         like .csv. Without seeing the original data structure, I have
>         no idea
>         how hard that might be to do.
>         
>         I hope this helped.
>         
>         On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 06:11 -0800, Julia Moretto Amâncio
>         wrote:
>         > I want to know how I can open a exel (*.xml) file on pspp?
>         > 
>         > Thanks,
>         > Julia
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