Warning: Excel-ViSta link does not work. Do not waste time trying to move data this way from Excel to ViSta.
USE IMPORT DATA COMMAND IN THE FILE COMMAND AFTER SAVING YOUR DATA AS A TAB SEPARATED FILE AND READING THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW.
NOTICE THAT THE FILE MUST BE AS CLEAN AS POSSIBLE, PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW AND HAVE A LOOK AT THE IMPORTA DATA FOLDER IN THE DATA FOLDER FOR EXAMPLES OF PROPERLY STRUCTURED DATA SETS
SEND A MESSAGE TO THE USERS LIST HERE IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION
Importing rules
Ungrouped data
-No white spaces (use _ instead if you need to separate words)
-Avoid non standard characters (for example, asterisks, or accents like you use in spanish or french)
-Use points for decimals, do not separate thousandss: use the plain number
-If missing values, write the type of the variables (Category or Numeric)
-You can use missing values in category variables, but I do not know of a good reason for doing that
-First column labels? Then, indicate the type of first column is labels and name of first column will be used as name for the data
Grouped data
Table data: Do not try to use table data directly, codify it as frequency category data
Frequency category data are one or several category variables and one numeric variable with name Freq or Frequency |