Re: select cases doesn't work

[Coleen Starwalt]

Hey thanks, John, for responding. I found this website: 
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/PSPP.shtml. 
says it was update september 5. I don't have Harry's website, but maybe 
you could send me the link if it would be worth my while (as in an even 
more recent update.)

As for PSPP, the version I have, it ate my data! And unfortunately, I 
didn't have it backed up! Sigh. And how many times do I tell my students 
to do so... At least I only lost one run of statistics. I'll have the 
student do it by hand. That'll teach him just how hard it is!!

Thanks.

Coleen
On 11/5/2011 7:39 PM, John Darrington wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 03:33:09PM +0100, Coleen Starwalt wrote:
> > I am a simple linguist with a humble PhD in linguistics - no computer
> > programmer here, just a user of Windows and Windows-based programs. I
> > was happily using SPSS for my statistical needs until I discovered to my
> > horror that to renew my license (what? Buying software isn't really
> > buying it?) would cost me thousands of dollars. Absurd.
>
> I quite agree.  That's why PSPP is licenced under GPLv3, which has clause
> forbidding anyone from doing the same with PSPP.  You might be interested
> to read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/opposing-drm.html
>
>
> > But we found
> > PSPP and that it does the basic functions that I needed SPSS for. We
> > found the windows based version of it - I'm not a Linux user and now is
> > not the time to learn - and I was happily working on a batch of data
> > until I discovered I could not select any cases. But selecting data,
> > select cases doesn't bring up a dialogue box. Do you have a patch, fix
> > or perhaps an updated version or know of one where this has been fixed?
> > I downloaded this version: psppire.exe 0.7.5-g70514b.
> This version is about 18 months old.
>
> There were some bugs reported in the select cases function some time ago I
> think they have been fixed now although there was some question about whether
> it behaved exactly as SPSS does.
>
> However I'm surprised that you say it doesn't bring up any dialog box at
> all.  As I recall the problem was mainly in the transformation.
>
> Anyway perhaps you could download a recent 0.7.8 (I think Harry said he's got
> a version about 2 weeks old on his site) and try that.  If that doesn't work
> properly, then please feel free to submit a bug report and we'll see what we
> can do about it.
>
>
> J'