RE: PSPP-BUG: Please report to address@hidden

[Mike Marchywka]

Thanks, I just sent along the whole email to report the bug. But, I do have 
additional observations.


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> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: PSPP-BUG: Please report to address@hidden
> From: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:14:28 -0700
>
> Mike Marchywka  writes:
>
>>> I'm trying to build this right now but I'm curious to know how you think 
>>> this compares to something like
>>> "R" ?
>
> R is more of a language for programmers than is PSPP. If you are
> a programmer and want to implement your own statistical
> procedures, you will likely be happier with R. If you just want
> to run pre-packaged statistical procedures, you will likely be
> happier with PSPP, except for one caveat: it is possible, even
> likely, that PSPP's collection of statistical procedures does not
> yet include all the statistics that you want to calculate.
>
> PSPP also has a GUI that makes things pretty easy, or at least it
> is intended to do so. I am not too familiar with R, but I don't
> think it has an equivalent.
>
>>> I was looking for source code to add to my code for doing
>>> right censored non-parametric significance tests that I can
>>> integrate with some wavelet code.
>
> I will have to let someone else speak for whether PSPP includes
> these abilities, but off-hand I do not think so. Have you looked
> through the documentation?
>
>>> I managed to get past ./configure --without-libplot and it now
>>> seems to have compiled ok. "make check" passed several tests
>>> and now seems to have failed "command/sample.sh" and now
>>> passing most of other tests
> [...]
>>> Unfortunately, as reported in the past, my configuration is really messed up
>>> and I don't think I can even determine what I have installed. Note also 
>>> that hotmail is
>>> now the self appointed expert on reformatting text files so the attached 
>>> cygcheck output is
>>> likely to have line breaks at the whim of said expert.
>
> I didn't see an attachment. Can you send it again?
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org

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