Re: RECODE, CHISQ issues, and other feedback

[Ben Pfaff]

address@hidden writes:

> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:29:38PM -0600, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> address@hidden writes:
>> > I looked at the source code to figure out why THRU wasn't
>> > working (being unimplemented), so I'm already in the code.  
>> 
>> THRU should work.  It did in my tests, even before the bug
>> fixes.  Can you show me an example that doesn't work, but should?
>
> I figured out the problem was that I hadn't recoded a string into 
> NUMERIC.  It's working fine when I do that.  The error message didn't 
> make it obvious.  It just said there was a syntax error.  

You're right, that error message is poor.  I've checked in an
improvement.

>> > I might work on THRU, CONVERT, and single-factor chi-square is
>> > broken, even though passing multiple factors into it seems to
>> > work.  CROSSTABS /CELLS=... doesn't do what I expect, either.
>> 
>> CROSSTABS kind of sucks in some ways, yes, but I don't think I
>> know about this particular problem.  Can you give more details?
>
> Yes, I've made an example pspp file.  I'll file a concise bug in the 
> morning, but if you want an early look at what I'm working on, you can 
> see this, which I update as I get and incorporate feedback and updates:

I see the bug report now, thanks for filing it.
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