Workspace Node: Merge Text Labels - Specifications Tab

The Merge Text Labels workspace node can be accessed from the Feature Finder, ribbon bar, or Node Browser. Double-click the node to display the specifications dialog box.

Only the text labels of variables with the same name in both files will be merged. If two variables (from the two files) share the same name but you do not want to merge their text labels, then temporarily change the name of the variable in one of the files until the merge procedure is completed.

Input.

Variables

Click this button to choose only certain variables to merge. Note that the variables are paired together in the order that they appear in the respective spreadsheet and the names of the variables will be ignored.

For example, if you select variables 1-3 from File 1 and variables 2-4 from File 2, the text labels of variable 1 from File 1 will be merged with the text labels of variable 2 from File 2, etc.

Note: if you do not select any variables via the Variables button, Statistica matches all variables that have the same name. For example, if File 1 contains a variable named Age, Statistica searches for a variable named Age in File 2 and merges the text labels of those two variables.

Output.

Variables.

Mode

Select one of the options in the Mode group box to control how text labels are treated when you merge.

Replace text labels in Spreadsheet 1 with those in Spreadsheet 2

Select this option button if you want to replace all the text labels in the first data file with those from the second data file.

For example, suppose you have two data sets you want to merge:

File 1		File 2
Red	101	Yellow	101
Blue	102	Blue	102
Yellow	103	Green	103

Open the File 1 data file, select Merge from the Data menu to display the Merge Options dialog box, and select the File 2 data file. Then, if you choose to Replace text labels in File 1 with text labels from File 2, the result is:

Yellow	101
Blue	102
Green	103

Remove text labels from File 1 and replace with text labels from File 2

Select this option button if you want to remove the text label lists from File 1 and add all of the text labels from File 2.

For example, if you merge File 1 and File 2 in the previous example using the Remove text labels from File 1 and replace with text labels from File 2 option, the result is:

Yellow	101
Blue	102
Green	103

Keep text labels from File 1, but add to it those labels from File 2

Select this option button if you want to combine the text label lists from the File 2 data file with those of the File 1 data file. If any duplicated text labels are detected, Statistica uses the text labels from File 2.

For example, if you merge File 1 and File 2 in the previous example using the Keep text labels from File 1, but add to it those labels from File 2. option, the result is:

Red	101
Blue	102
Yellow	103

Options. See Common Options.

OK. Click the OK button to accept all the specifications made in the dialog box and to close it. To view the new spreadsheet, click the icon on the lower-right corner of the Concatenate Variables node.