How to run multiple files one after another

EDIT: my apologies, the second error message should refer to the operand missing.

You can use run -r in your GAUSS file. So make a file main.gss (you can call it anything, but we will use this name here).:

run -r filename_1.gss;
run -r filename_2.gss;
run -r filename_3.gss;

Then you can execute the command:

tgauss -b main.gss

from your Operating System command prompt.

Thank you for your swift response. I am unable to run tgauss from my  Operating System command prompt. I have tried changing my working directory in the command prompt to the folder containing tgauss and also the the folder containing the main.gss file, but in both instances I am getting the error in the terminal: tgauss command not found. Sorry if I am missing something obvious - I have tried copying over the tgauss file to the main.gss file directory and vice versa, but in both instanced I get the same error.

Thank you for your help with this problem.

OK, I thought you could call tgauss successfully, just not with multiple files. tgauss is the terminal (i.e. no user interface) version of GAUSS that is provided for running batch jobs.

1. HOW TO RUN YOUR FILES WITH TGAUSS

The easist way to run tgauss is to:

a) Change the working directory of your Operating System command prompt (Windows CMD, Mac Terminal, Linux Shell/Terminal) to the GAUSS installation directory (Windows: C:/gauss17, Mac /Users/YourUserName/gauss17, Linux the location you installed it. NOTE: replace 17 above with your GAUSS version number if it is not 17).

b) On Windows enter:

tgauss.exe -b main.gss

On Mac or Linux enter:

./tgauss -b main.gss

1. HOW TO RUN YOUR FILES IN THE GAUSS USER INTERFACE

From the GAUSS Program Input/Output Window, enter:

run main.gss

Thank you for getting back to me. I tried both methods to no avail. I used the run main.gss command in Gauss I/O window, but only the first file runs and then ends. Following steps a and b, I am not sure why the batch file wont run given all individual routines run with no problem. I have removed the end commands also but this did not solve the problem. This is the output below if it is of any use.

Thank you for your help.

campus-10-31-85-195:gauss17 Zel$ ./tgauss -b main.gss

GAUSS 17.0.1 (Nov 15 2016, 4304) 64-bit

(C)Copyright 1984-2016 Aptech Systems, Inc.

All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

Job: main.gss ( /Users/Zel/gauss17 )

Mon Jul 31 14:05:41 2017, pid=7250, tid=140736395186656, uid=501 ( Zel )

/Users/Zel/Documents/

  0.0000

error G0540 : Program terminated with END

/Users/Zel/gauss17/main.gss, line 2

Program execute failed

From what you posted, it looks like there is an end statement still somewhere in your first program. You can verify that the general concept of running multiple files with run -r works, by changing your main.gss program from running your file, to running one of the GAUSS example programs such as ols.e. Like:

run -r ols.e;
run -r ols.e;

Here is my output from doing this. Notice that the `ols` output is printed twice, indicating that the example file was run twice.

zeus:gauss17 jim$ #Print contents of 'main.gss' to terminal
zeus:gauss17 jim$ cat main.gss
run -r ols.e;
run -r ols.e;
zeus:gauss17 jim$ ./tgauss -b main.gss

GAUSS 17.0.3 (Jan 24 2017, 4328) 64-bit
(C)Copyright 1984-2017 Aptech Systems, Inc.
All Rights Reserved Worldwide.


Job: main.gss ( /Users/jim/gauss17 )
Thu Aug 10 10:23:07 2017, pid=69509, tid=140735099920384, uid=501 ( jim )


Valid cases:                   100      Dependent variable:                   Y
Missing cases:                   0      Deletion method:                   None
Total SS:                    7.658      Degrees of freedom:                  94
R-squared:                   0.046      Rbar-squared:                    -0.005
Residual SS:                 7.307      Std error of est:                 0.279
F(5,94):                     0.901      Probability of F:                 0.484

                         Standard                 Prob   Standardized  Cor with
Variable     Estimate      Error      t-value     >|t|     Estimate    Dep Var
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONSTANT     0.523174    0.028551   18.324352     0.000       ---         ---  
X1           0.039865    0.033480    1.190707     0.237    0.121184    0.106851
X2          -0.037269    0.028504   -1.307482     0.194   -0.132293   -0.129994
X3          -0.020150    0.030313   -0.664738     0.508   -0.067141   -0.072746
X4          -0.024109    0.027511   -0.876359     0.383   -0.088512   -0.094787
X5           0.013825    0.026378    0.524120     0.601    0.053221    0.043402


Results of this run stored in ols_output.txt file
The file will be found in your working directory
Valid cases:                   100      Dependent variable:                   Y
Missing cases:                   0      Deletion method:                   None
Total SS:                    7.658      Degrees of freedom:                  94
R-squared:                   0.046      Rbar-squared:                    -0.005
Residual SS:                 7.307      Std error of est:                 0.279
F(5,94):                     0.901      Probability of F:                 0.484


                         Standard                 Prob   Standardized  Cor with
Variable     Estimate      Error      t-value     >|t|     Estimate    Dep Var
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONSTANT     0.523174    0.028551   18.324352     0.000       ---         ---
X1           0.039865    0.033480    1.190707     0.237    0.121184    0.106851
X2          -0.037269    0.028504   -1.307482     0.194   -0.132293   -0.129994
X3          -0.020150    0.030313   -0.664738     0.508   -0.067141   -0.072746
X4          -0.024109    0.027511   -0.876359     0.383   -0.088512   -0.094787
X5           0.013825    0.026378    0.524120     0.601    0.053221    0.043402


Results of this run stored in ols_output.txt file
The file will be found in your working directory
zeus:gauss17 jim

Once you can confirm that this works, we can help you figure out why your first program will not run to completion.