Are there any records in your rec file that are marked for deletion? I had EpiData Analysis stall on me when it tried to read a rec file with a deleted record. I used the 'pack file' function in EpiData to get rid of the records that were marked for deletion. After that it worked fine.
I suppose you could also undelete these marked records, but then they will show up in your analysis.
Rod
Hello
Would someone tell me please what might be the problem when epidata
analysis doesn't read rec file.
Thanks
Mohd
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Thanks Hans!
That was the issue.
Renate
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Did you get it the right way around? If one person has 1 or more
visits, then you read the visits file and add information from the
person-file:
read "visitsfile.rec"
merge uniqueid /file="presonfile.rec" /table savedata "newfile"
freq mergevar
MERGEVAR is created by EpiData and takes 3 values, only in original,
only in external, in both.
Regards,
Hans
On 02-May-12 20:13, epidata-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
>
> I am in the process of merging files in EpiData Analysis. I am looking
> for syntax that would allow me to keep all the records in the file not
> just the records that are in common in file1 (individual information)
> and file2 (visit information). File 2 contains only information of
> those that are already included in File1.
>
>
>
> For example, file1 has a 100 records and file2 has 10. One person has
> 5 visits and 5 others have one record.
>
> The merged file ideally includes all records from file1 and file2 (104
> records). I have tried several options and failed as there are
> duplicate ID's.
>
> Example:
>
>
>
> close
>
> logclose
>
>
>
> read "C:\file1.rec"
>
> merge id /file=: \file2.rec" /table
>
> savedata "C:\file3.rec " /replace
>
>
>
> I am looking forward to hear how I can resolve this issue.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Renate
>
>
>
>
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Hi there,
I am in the process of merging files in EpiData Analysis. I am looking
for syntax that would allow me to keep all the records in the file not
just the records that are in common in file1 (individual information)
and file2 (visit information). File 2 contains only information of those
that are already included in File1.
For example, file1 has a 100 records and file2 has 10. One person has 5
visits and 5 others have one record.
The merged file ideally includes all records from file1 and file2 (104
records). I have tried several options and failed as there are
duplicate ID's.
Example:
close
logclose
read "C:\file1.rec"
merge id /file="C: \file2.rec" /table
savedata "C:\file3.rec " /replace
I am looking forward to hear how I can resolve this issue.
Thanks,
Renate