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copied!<p>SPSS (and SAS I presume) have some overhead by the need to write everything to disk that makes the compilation in one fell swoop less appealing. Similar as to what Yick mentioned, SPSS has an output system that one can write automated reports to begin with and export to HTML or PDF or Word. It isn't the easiest thing to make look nice, but it is possible and additions to ease automated editing (mainly via Python scripts) are being rolled out on a regular basis.</p> <p>Basically the automated reports I write now using SPSS and R have html shells. The code then just updates or inserts the needed tables and graphs. They are entirely self-contained, reproducible, and run on weekly or monthly timers without human intervention. They just don't have inline code blocks exactly defining how the tables are produced (you would have to trace the code slightly further back to figure it out - but that isn't too onerous IMO).</p> <p>Because SPSS allows you to run SPSS code from the Python command prompt you could theoretically knit a document with Python code calling SPSS. I'm not quite sure I see the advantage of this over having more segmented code in seperate places though. Do you really want to read 100 lines of SPSS code that begins with an SQL query, does some transformations and produces a table and a graph? Wouldn't you rather see the table and graph, and then if interested in the nitty gritty go back to see <code>DataPrep.sps</code> that prepares all of the data, then see <code>Table1.sps</code> and <code>Figure1.sps</code> etc. to see how they each were exactly produced?</p>

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