Re: pspp-0.8.0 released [stable]

[Matthew Silver]

Does the "batch syntax" mean that pspp can run production jobs like SPSS?

On Jul 23, 2013, at 1:47 AM, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm very pleased to announce the release of GNU PSPP 0.8.0.  We
> hope to make releases more frequently in the future.
> 
> Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.8.0.tar.gz
>  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig
> 
> Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
> 
> [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
> .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
> and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
> 
>  gpg --verify pspp-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig
> 
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> then run this command to import it:
> 
>  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys C6648E90
> 
> and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
> 
> This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>  Autoconf 2.69
>  Automake 1.11.6
>  Gnulib v0.0-7852-g408cb57
> 
> NEWS
> 
> Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.8.0:
> 
> * New commands:
> 
>   - ADD FILES
>   - CORRELATIONS
>   - DATAFILE ATTRIBUTES
>   - DATASET ACTIVATE
>   - DATASET CLOSE
>   - DATASET COPY
>   - DATASET DECLARE
>   - DATASET DISPLAY
>   - DATASET NAME
>   - LOGISTIC REGRESSION
>   - MATCH FILES
>   - MEANS
>   - MRSETS
>   - PRESERVE and RESTORE
>   - QUICK CLUSTER
>   - RELIABILITY
>   - ROC
>   - SAVE TRANSLATE to CSV and tab-delimited files
>   - UPDATE
>   - VARIABLE ATTRIBUTES
> 
> * Changes to existing commands:
> 
>   - AUTORECODE has a new GROUP subcommand.
> 
>   - CROSSTABS has been re-implemented to fix numerous bugs.
> 
>   - EXAMINE: /MISSING=LISTWISE is now the default.
> 
>   - DO REPEAT command has been reimplemented.  Now, when DO REPEAT
>     contains an INCLUDE or INSERT command, substitutions are not
>     applied to the included file.
> 
>   - FILE HANDLE has a new ENDS subcommand to select CR or CRLF new-lines.
> 
>   - HOST has been updated to use more modern syntax.
> 
>   - Most commands that work with data files now support a new
>     ENCODING subcommand.
> 
>   - MISSING VALUES can now assign missing values to long string
>     variables.
> 
>   - ONEWAY: the POSTHOC subcommand is now implemented.
> 
>   - The following new subcommands to NPAR TESTS have been implemented:
>     COCHRAN, FRIEDMAN, JONCKHEERE-TERPSTRA, KENDALL, KRUSKAL-WALLIS, 
> MANN-WHITNEY, 
>     MCNEMAR, SIGN, WILCOXON, and RUNS
> 
>   - SET and SHOW no longer have ENDCMD, NULLINE, PROMPT, CPROMPT, and
>     DPROMPT subcommands.  The defaults are now fixed values.
> 
>   - SHOW now has a JOURNAL subcommand, to show the location of the
>     journal file.
> 
>   - VALUE LABELS can now assign value labels to long string
>     variables.
> 
> * Other language changes:
> 
>   - The new DATASET commands replace the "scratch file" PSPP
>     extension, which is no longer supported.
> 
>   - Strings may now include arbitrary Unicode code points specified
>     in hexadecimal, using the syntax U'hhhh'.  For example, Unicode
>     code point U+1D11E, the musical G clef character, may be
>     expressed as U'1D11E'.
> 
>     See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
> 
>   - In previous versions of PSPP, in a string expressed in
>     hexadecimal with X'hh' syntax, the hexadecimal digits expressed
>     bytes in the locale encoding.  In this version of PSPP, X'hh'
>     syntax always expresses bytes in UTF-8 encoding.
> 
>     See the "Tokens" section in the PSPP manual for more information.
> 
> * PSPPIRE graphical user interface improvements:
> 
>   - Added support for non-ASCII characters in strings, labels and
>     variable names.
> 
>   - A "Split Window" function is available, which makes it easier to
>     see different parts of a large data file.
> 
>   - Data files can now be opened by specifing their name as the first
>     argument.  This means that on a properly configured desktop, double
>     clicking on an icon will open the file.
> 
>   - Foreign formats, such as Gnumeric, OpenDocument and CSV can be imported
>     via using an "intelligent" application assistant dialog.
> 
> * Output changes:
> 
>   - The new "cairo" output driver supports output in PostScript, PDF,
>     and SVG formats.  Its functionality is a superset of that of the
>     "postscript" driver, which has been removed.  You must have Cairo
>     and Pango installed to build the "cairo" driver.
> 
>   - Charts are now produced with Cairo and Pango, instead of libplot.
>     Without them, the new graphing features will not work.  If you do
>     not have Cairo and Pango installed, you must run `configure' with
>     --without-cairo.
> 
>   - The plain text output driver now properly supports multibyte UTF-8
>     characters, including double-width characters and combining
>     accents.
> 
>   - Output to OpenDocument format is now supported.
> 
>   - The HTML output is much improved.
> 
> * The "pspp" program has a new option --batch (or -b) that selects
>   "batch" syntax mode.  In previous versions of PSPP this syntax mode
>   was the default.  Now a new "auto" syntax mode is the default.  In
>   "auto" mode, PSPP interprets most syntax files correctly regardless
>   of their intended syntax mode.
> 
>   See the "Syntax Variants" section in the PSPP manual for more
>   information.
> 
> * The "pspp" program has a new option --syntax-encoding that
>   specifies the encoding for syntax files listed on the command line,
>   as well as the default encoding for syntax files included with
>   INCLUDE or INSERT.  The default is to accept the system locale
>   encoding, UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32, automatically detecting which
>   one the system file uses.
> 
>   See the documentation for the INSERT command in the PSPP manual for
>   more information.
> 
> * Text data files that PRINT and WRITE creates now use the system
>   native line ends by default (CRLF on Windows, LF only elsewhere).
>   Use the new ENDS subcommand on FILE HANDLE to override the default.
> 
> * A new Perl module allows Perl programs to read and write PSPP
>   system files.
> 
> * A tutorial chapter has been added to the user manual.
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