Description of variables empty when data is exported to SAV

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Reibeisen
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Description of variables empty when data is exported to SAV

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Dear data friends from jamovi!

First and foremost: Thank you very much for developing such an outstanding tool to explore data. The slick UI is definitely a really strong factor, which helps me to teach others the magic of data.

When it comes to exporting data to SAV for further processing (e.g. in R), I've noticed, that the data does not keep the description texts of the variables - they are simply empty. Considering, that I frequently use the description metadata for question texts in social research, I would like to ask, if I forget to consider some settings or if there might be a bug hindering the export from keeping that data.

Wishing all of you a nice day ahead!
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jonathon
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Re: Description of variables empty when data is exported to

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hi,

thanks for letting us know. i've made a small change so that the description/label is now included when jamovi exports a .sav file. this should go out in the next release.

cheers

jonathon
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