Re: select cases doesn't work

[Andy Choens]

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'
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Pspp-users mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users