Based on the my installed version of PSPP/psppire (psppire.exe 0.7.9-g4380b2 on Win7), you click "Forward" and then select the first row, click continue, select comma (only) as the separator, and I would click through the next screen a choose "Paste" and then manually examine the pasted syntax for correctness. I don't see a place where I have to enter values for NVAR/NCASE; PSPP reads these from the file.
I suspect that with a bit of trial and error, you would have found this out for yourself. This wizard, BTW, works quite like that of SPSS so you could use one of the several SPSS guides.
-Alan
On 8/23/2013 8:39 PM, Mark Levine
wrote:
Hi folks,
Newbie to PSPP, used SPSS decades ago. What a great idea!! I am seriously impressed by what this team has put together. I am currently trying to use PSPP 0.8.0 on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.8.4.
Basic problem: I don't know how to tell PSPP what to expect in terms of NVAR and NCASE. I get one case and a load of variables.
I want to analyze a small survey, roughly vars = 100, N = 150, collected on Survey Monkey. I want to do some basic descriptive, correlational, and multivariate stuff, etc. I have eliminated the open-ends (because some responses were very long and I was getting an error message from PSPP) and deleted the row of the column labels.
OK, I have a clean dataset, I saved it as a cvs file in Excel as John Darrington suggested and tried to open it. Unfortunately (and reasonably) PSPP saw the data as one respondent with a load of vars. It didn't know how many variables to fill in and then to go on to the next case. I can't find a way to tell PSPP how many vars, how many rows to expect. Just can't get from cvs file into PSPP.
How do I set up PSPP to accept a cvs file? Am I missing something?
Can the community guide me a bit or point me to a resource or a previous thread? I've searched and found the one with John's suggestion and that's about it.
Here's where I am:
Your thoughts????? If there is any further info needed, please advise.ALSO: Does a guide to the GUI version exist?
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