Robin, It looks like you are running PSPP directly. Maybe the manual tells you to do so, but you actually want to run PSPPIRE, the GUI shell.
When I install the latest 64-bit Windows PSPP from http://pspp.awardspace.com/ I can start PSPP(IRE) the same way I start all Windows 7 programs: Start > All programs > PSPP > PSPP PSPPIRE is also the default handler for .sav files, so if you navigate to the examples folder ("C:\Program Files\PSPP\share\pspp\examples" or Start > All Programs > PSPP > Examples) and double-click on phisiology.sav, it should bring up the PSPPIRE data window. On that window, select File > New > Syntax and paste your syntax ("EXAMINE height weight BY sex /STATISTICS = EXTREME (3) /PLOT = BOXPLOT /COMPARE = GROUPS.") into that window. Then select Run > All. The error about 'name' not being a variable is because name isn't a variable in the physio dataset. In PSPPIRE it's very easy to see what variables are n a dataset, especially using the "Variable View" tab of the data window. When I start PSPPIRE and paste your shortened command (and add a trailing period) I get boxplots (see the screenshot). -Alan On 12/30/2014 10:59 AM, Robin Reeves wrote: > I think I should have sent this to the pspp-users e-mail rather than > directly to Alan Mead. Aplogies. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: robi...@hotmail.co.uk > To: ame...@alanmead.org > Subject: Missing sub commands in PSPP > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:53:29 +0000 > > Hi, > > I have just joined the PSPP users mailing list and am trying to find > how to get boxplots. > > I came across your thread dated Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:38:27 -0600 with > comments from Terence Palmer and John Darrington. > > I too am a novice user of PSPP. I only recently downloaded > > release no. 0.8.4-g5ce6b1 > > > and I'm running it on Windows 7 on a 64 bit machine. > > I can't find how to do box plots in psppire so I've been trying to use > commands in the syntax window. I have been trying to do the second > example at the bottom of page 131 of the PSPP manual with the > "physiology.sav" data file. > > The file has definitely loaded after using the GET FILE > ="......physiology.sav". command. > > I've then typed > EXAMINE height weight BY sex /STATISTICS = EXTREME (3) /PLOT = BOXPLOT > /COMPARE = GROUPS /ID = name. > > The syntax editor told me there is no variable called 'name'. > > I shortened the command to > EXAMINE height weight BY sex /STATISTICS = EXTREME (3) /PLOT = BOXPLOT > /COMPARE = GROUPS > > and I get the results in 'Screenshot1' attached above but I can't see > any box plots. _Are they going somewhere other than the Syntax Window?_ > > I've tried typing: > EXAMINE height weight BY sex /STATISTICS = DESCRIPTIVES /PLOT = > HISTOGRAM /NOTOTAL > to repeat the first example on page 131 of the manual but with the > "physiology.sav" data file but I still don't see a histogram. I got > the results in 'Screenshot2' attached above. > > Please can you or anyone else help. > > Many thanks, > Robin Reeves > -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers +815.588.3846 (Office) +267.334.4143 (Mobile) http://www.alanmead.org Announcing the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing (JCAT), a peer-reviewed electronic journal designed to advance the science and practice of computerized adaptive testing: http://www.iacat.org/jcat
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