AW: Import / Export Functions and other features missing for academic and office use in urban planning

[Roman Seidl]

Dear PSPP community!

Thanks for your extensive replies! I am quite surprise on how much the
project seem to have got back alive within the last year.

Somehow no new window was opened when opening a file in 0.7.7 on
windows. I could not find anything about this in the 0.7.8 release
notes. Is it only in git for now that this changed?

I was confused when mentioning ODT - which seem to work for the output
(which is certainly very nice to have). 

I was actually thinking about ODS, XLS or DBF as a means to import and
export the current dataset.

I could not find out how to import ODS in 0.7.7 though Wikipedia (well
Wikipedia...) claims it should be possible (s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPP, last modified on 30 January 2011 at
04:03). 

The only way to get Data out of PSPP for now seems to be exporting to a
text file which is a quite tedious job as the docs seem to be rather bad
and there is no such thing as a wizard.

Best regards
Roman

P.S: Wikipedia claims that "PSPP can import Gnumeric, OpenDocument and
Excel spreadsheets, Postgres databases, comma-separated values- and
ASCII-files." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPP, last modified on 30
January 2011 at 04:03) Anybody know why Excel is mentioned here? I also
didn't find how to import ods in the 0.7.7 docs.

P.P.S: The first download-link for windows on the PSPP home-page is
quite misleading as the development version offered there is far from
being up to date (0.7.5).

P.P.S.: Thanks for mentioning R-CRAN Alma :) I use that for my science
projects but the learning curve of R is still much steeper that of PSPP
when it comes to teaching students the basics of statistics - even
though there is quite nice guis like rcmdr or rkward.