syntax error in FREQUENCIES with format LIMIT

[Ferguson, Douglas A]

To recreate this syntax error in psppire.exe 0.8.5-g2d71ac à

 

1.       Create any new single-variable (Var001) dataset. N=10 is plenty.

2.       Analyze menu, Descriptive Statistics, Frequencies

3.       Click on Frequency Table

4.       Choose “If no more than 50 values”

 

Here’s the error you get:

 

FREQUENCIES

                /VARIABLES= Var0001

 

.24-28: error: FREQUENCIES: Syntax error at `LIMIT'.

 

                /FORMAT=AVALUE LIMIT (50).

 

 

Douglas A. Ferguson, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Communication

College of Charleston

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