Well, my problem is that I could not install SPSS as I only have a Windows 7 starter version and this seems to be incompatible with the test version of SPSS. So, I only have PSPP :-( ________________________________
Lena Gringhuis 21011826 student Marketingmanagement - Tourism and Eventmanagement ________________________________________ Von: T James [gsr...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013 15:19 An: John Darrington Cc: Lena Gringhuis; pspp-users@gnu.org Betreff: Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de I had the same problem (the error message when trying to import .csv files) with 0.8.2 & 0.8.3. Rather than deal with the trouble with figuring it out (I am no programmer), I just imported the .sav file from SPSS and had no further issues. It would, however, be great if we could work together to find a fix. Toi Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2013, at 2:49 PM, John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 01:31:52PM +0000, Lena Gringhuis wrote: > > I have done a questionnaire for my Bachelor thesis with the German > provider q-set.de. There, I got two documents as you can find attached. I > downloaded the program PSPP as I know that this is a nice alternative to > SPSS. Normally, one could import the documents to have a nice overview in > PSPP without typing everything in. > When I am importing the .csv file, there is an error which says that the > document contents a row which is longer than 16384 bytes. > > When I am importing the syntax.sps file, VAR001 includes all the data of > the document, but I cannot do anything to seperate it into different > variables. > > > Indeed, these files are wierd. They seem to use a single CR as a line > separator. I've never seen a file like that before - effectively both files > contain only one line. > > I used sed to change all CRs into LFs and then imported it using PSPPs > File|Import option. > Then it seemed to go ok, but there are a number of instances where the csv > file has strings where numbers are expected. > > q-set.de seem to be generating very off output. > > J' > > > > -- > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
