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One of the first things on my wish list is to allow us to use variable names to reference variables. Using variable numbers (v1, v2 ...) for reference is a very poor design to be honest, and you won't find this design in comparable products like SPSS or SAS. It distrupts your workflow and adds a need for revisiting your data sheet all the time.
| Implemented in | Statistica 13.3 |
Angela is right. Also in case you will choose variables from interactive variable dialog. It seems like you choose numbers of variables, but inside variable names are recorded. This might be confusing but referencing variable names by name is already working.
Workspace nodes allow users to select variables by name by typing the name.
And I may add that if your data change, so that your variables get a new ordering, you have to recode everything that reference those variables. So changing this should get a really high priority.