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Re: select cases doesn't work


From: Andy Choens
Subject: Re: select cases doesn't work
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:19:45 -0500
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Apologies. Not sure how that email got sent to the list attached to that 
email. Very incongruous and pointless.

On Monday, November 07, 2011 11:37:40 AM Andy Choens wrote:
> Irony = Fake grant proposal with a real deadline.
> 
> On Saturday, November 05, 2011 08:02:43 PM Coleen Starwalt wrote:
> > 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'
> > 
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