Re: pspp-1.4.0 released [stable]

[Rick Fiene]

Thank you very much!!

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:45 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>>