Re: pspp-1.4.0 released [stable]

[Ben Pfaff]

Chromebooks can run GNU/Linux programs if you enable that feature. You
could run PSPP in there.

Otherwise, no.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 4:30 AM Rick Fiene <rfiene@rikinstitute.com> wrote:

> Is there a version of PSPP that runs on Chromebooks?
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> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 7:25 PM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm very pleased to announce the release of a new version of GNU PSPP.
>> PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data.  It is a
>> free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
>>
>> Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>>   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-1.4.0.tar.gz
>>   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-1.4.0.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-1.4.0.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 85199DE8C6648E90
>>
>> and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>>
>> Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0:
>>
>>  * The file pspp-mode.el (the pspp-mode for Emacs) is no longer
>> distributed
>>    with PSPP.  Instead, it can be installed directly in emacs and is
>> available
>>    from https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/pspp-mode.html
>>
>>  * The Find dialog box, when searching for numeric values, will match only
>>    to the precision of the variable's print format.  This avoids behaviour
>>    which is suprising to some users.
>>
>>  * PSPP now supports the SPSS viewer (.spv) format that SPSS 16 and later
>>    use to save the contents of its output editor:
>>
>>    - PSPP and PSPPIRE can write output to .spv files.
>>
>>    - The new utility pspp-output can convert .spv files to other formats.
>>
>>    - The pspp-convert utility can now decrypt encrypted .spv files.  The
>>      encrypted viewer file format is unacceptably insecure, so to
>>      discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE do not directly read or write
>>      this format.
>>
>>  * A bug where the Data|Select Cases|Random Sample menu would generate
>>    invalid syntax has been fixed.
>>
>>  * FREQUENCIES will emit a warning if one or more weight values are
>> missing.
>>
>>  * Plain text output is no longer divided into pages, since it is now
>>    rarely printed on paper.
>>
>>  * pspp-convert improvements:
>>
>>    - New "-a", "-l", "--password-list" options to search for an
>>      encrypted file's password.
>>
>>    - New "--keep" and "--drop" options to output only selected variables.
>>
>>    - New "--recode", "--no-var-name", "--labels", "--print-formats",
>>      "--decimal", "--delimiter", and "--qualifier" options to control
>>      CSV output.
>>
>>  * Improvements to SAVE DATA COLLECTION support for MDD files.
>>
>>  * Bug fix for CVE-2018-20230.
>>
>>  * The /RENAME subcommand in SAVE TRANSLATE et al. has been extended
>>    to support the syntax also accepted by other software.
>>
>>  * The EXAMINE command will now perform the Shapiro-Wilk test when
>>    one or more plots are requested.
>>
>>  * The REGRESSION command now supports the /STATISTICS=TOL option which
>>    outputs tolerance and variance inflation factor metrics for the data.
>>
>>  * The QUICK CLUSTER command now supports the /SAVE option which can
>>    be used to save the cases' cluster membership and/or their distance
>>    from the cluster centre to the active file.
>>
>>  * The MEANS command has been re-implemented.
>>
>>  * The GUI now has a sub-dialog for post-hoc tests of the oneway
>>    anova test.
>>
>>  * Gtk+3.22.0 or later must now be used when building.
>>
>>  * GRAPH: Categorical barcharts displaying percentages now show the
>>    sub-category as a percentage of the primary category instead of the
>>    total.
>>
>>  * The Syntax Window now has a Find function to perform simple text
>>    searching.
>>
>>  * AUTORECODE:
>>
>>    - The PRINT subcommand is now implemented.
>>
>>    - Many bug fixes.
>>
>>