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I assume you are concerned with 'extra' variables and think you must use
edataaid to muck about with them (If I've misunderstood your post, excuse
me). At least (this works) in venerable e-prime 1. I don't know if there
have been any changes that break this in subsequent incarnations ...
After each subject's run try opening the .edat file (double click, of
course) then choose 'Save As' from File menu, choosing 'SPSS or Statview'
option. Saves as a tab-del text document (.txt documant is tab delimited
by default). Your SPSS syntax can pick it up from there no worries. Don't
worry about the extra variables (e.g., random seed) just work out the
order of variables, and which ones you want to keep. Import the tab-del
file using point and click commands and paste the syntax (not run it).
Then you can edit the import syntax to name your important variables as
you want them, and subsequently use 'Keep' and 'Drop' commands to keep
those you want, and to order them as you please in the SPSS .sav file.
Rough example follows (that you could easily include in a Python (or a
WinWrap Basic ... formerly Sax Basic) script):<br><br>
----- From a previous post -------------------------<br>
We export the entire unmodified edat file to tab del text then import the
whole thing into SPSS, using the point and click read text data wizard,
allowing the program to modify variable names however it wishes. We save
then run the syntax, then print variable names with the 'Display Labels'
command, identify the variables of interest, and use the 'Keep', 'Rename'
and 'Drop' subcommands of the 'Save' command to sort the columns, and
provide meaningful variable names and / or labels.<br><br>
Once this is done for the 1st subject's data file the syntax can be run
for each subsequent file simply by changing the source file name, and the
outfile names. Any combination of variables can be grabbed from the
master file by a few changes to the keep, drop, and rename subcommands.
Because the variable names are the same in both individual subject and
merged files the syntax can be used to import and organise single subject
data (to combine behavioural data with EEG files, for instance), or
merged files. Some rough example syntax (minus the display labels
command) for single subject data (no subject identifier included) below:
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<font size=2>* Import e-dat info for ENUM3<br><br>
GET DATA /TYPE = TXT<br>
/FILE = 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\e3_5_edat.txt'<br>
/DELCASE = LINE<br>
/DELIMITERS = "\t"<br>
/ARRANGEMENT = DELIMITED<br>
/FIRSTCASE = 2<br>
/IMPORTCASE = ALL<br>
/VARIABLES =<br>
Experime A10<br>
Subject F1.0<br>
Session F1.0<br>
Age F2.1<br>
V4 F6.2<br>
Gender A1<br>
Group F1.0<br>
Handed A1<br>
RandomSe F10.2<br>
SessionD A10<br>
SessionT A8<br>
Block F1.0<br>
BlockLis F1.0<br>
V14 F1.0<br>
V15 F1.0<br>
Practice F1.0<br>
V17 F1.0<br>
V18 F1.0<br>
V19 A8<br>
Procedur A9<br>
V20 A17<br>
Trial F2.0<br>
CheckAcc F1.0<br>
V24 F1.0<br>
V25 F1.0<br>
Code F2.0<br>
CollectC F6.0<br>
V28 F4.0<br>
corransw F1.0<br>
Fixation F4.2<br>
V31 F4.2<br>
V32 F2.1<br>
None F2.1<br>
NoWords F1.0<br>
numobs F1.0<br>
PracList F2.1<br>
V37 F1.0<br>
V38 F2.1<br>
V39 A9<br>
Recall.A F1.0<br>
V40 A9<br>
Stim1 A9<br>
ThreeSyl F2.1<br>
ThreeWor F1.0<br>
TrialLis F2.1<br>
V46 F1.0<br>
V47 F2.1<br>
TwoSyl F1.0<br>
TwoWords F1.0<br>
Type F1.0<br>
Word1 A3<br>
.<br>
CACHE.<br>
EXECUTE.<br><br>
Save Outfile= 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\E3_5_edat_MASTER.sav'
.<br><br>
Get<br>
file= 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\E3_5_edat_MASTER.sav' .<br><br>
Save Outfile= 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\E3_5_edat.sav' / Keep block
trial checkacc code collectc v28 corransw recall.a stim1.<br><br>
Get<br>
file= 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\E3_5_edat.sav' .<br><br>
Compute ob = $CASENUM.<br>
Execute.<br>
Formats ob (F8.0).<br><br>
Save Outfile= 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\E3_5_edat_2.sav' / Keep ob
code corransw checkacc v28 all.<br><br>
Get<br>
file= 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\E3_5_edat_2.sav' .<br><br>
Save Outfile= 'C:\AAPete\PhDData\Enum3\E3_5\E3_5_edat_3.sav' / Rename
(code corransw checkacc v28 = type resp acc rt) / Drop= block To
stim1.<br><br>
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</font>At 09:33 AM 19/08/2012, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hello, <br>
I am currently struggling with trying to automate my data translation
process from eprime to SPSS. I am not using emerge because I need
to create individual spss data files for each of my subjects. I
have written sytax that automates the translation from the edat output
(tab-separated) to an SPSS data file but I need to figure out a way to
circumvent e-dataAid so I can automate the whole process and reduce the
chance of any errors during the process. I was planning on using
python so that I could have the user select the files that they want to
convert to SPSS and then it does it automatically. From what I
gathered from python help forums is that I need to parse the raw data txt
document into a tab-separated file. Is there a way to do this or
documentation how to do this somewhere? The workflow would be
something like: raw data txt file --> tab separated --> spss syntax
(it reads from a list file I created in spss) --> spss data
file. I think the main spot I am stuck at is parsing the data from
the raw file so I can circumvent edataAid. From there it seems like
it might be somewhat straightforward. Thank you in advance for any
help you can provide. If you have any tips for the python part of
this process that would be appreciated as well, but I know the group is
for e-prime and do not expect help with that.<br>
Thank you,<br>
-Kyle<br><br>
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