[DDI-users] SAS format library-> ddi?

[Jeremy Iverson]

Bob,

Unfortunately DDI 3.1 does not support assigning labels to value ranges. 
Of course this is an important capability, so my understanding is that 
you will see this addressed in the next version, 3.2. Tools support 
should follow from there.

Cheers,

Jeremy


On 10/16/2010 7:43 AM, Bob McConnaughey wrote:
> Larry et al.
>     being more or less ignorant of DDI - ie I want to use the end
> products but am not sure how much i need to know about xml details to do
> so effectively, but being pretty familiar w/ SAS,  your code allows the
> SAS format libraries to be completely described in XML as they are w/in
> SAS.  That is it looks like you're allowing SAS ranges in the xml -> ddi
> transformation/compliance process.  Which is terrific as i've had to go
> though the steps of converting SAS ranges to "one-one" value labels when
> converting SAS dataset to SPSS in order to use the DDI based
> documentation tools that I've been trying out over the last few months.
>   Can the end user tools themselves (eg Nesstar or something cheaper...)
> be reconfigured to accept the equivalent of the SAS/Stata format ranges?
> or is that a "conceptual" problem that the documentation packages avoid
> on principle?
>
> eg..it would be very convenient and more parsimonious not to have to do
> the equivalent of SPSS recodes or excessively lengthy sets of value
> labels and instead have variables, say, education or age "formatted"
> into the groups one wants for documentation w/out losing the original
> values. I had been under the misapprehension (I hope) that DDI had a
> philosophical problem w/ "data ranges" - and am rather hoping that this
> was my misreading of how documentation packages had been implemented -
> that is w/out incorporating format ranges for convenience rather than by
> fiat.
>
> thanks very much indeed.
>
> bob mcconnaughey
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> westat/NIEHS epidemiology support
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