Thanks John. Alan, I'm sorry if I got your intention wrong. kind regards, Michal
2014-12-31 16:49 GMT+01:00 John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > I don't think Alan was trying to be disparaging. > > Bug reports are always welcome (although bug-gnu-p...@gnu.org might have > been > a better place to report it). In fact, we rely on users' feedback in order > to improve the software. > > J' > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Michał Dubrawski wrote: > Dear Alan, > > Although what you are saying are things that could be improved in > PSPP you > should remember that PSPP is still under development - it is not > version > 1.0. > > Even in version 1.0 I believe there could be and probably will be > things > worth improving - recently I had SPSS version 22 installed on my > computer > in the office - first my colleagues from IT department installed SPSS > itself, and then a very large file with bug fixes. Not long ago we > had here > on PSPP mailing list a large discussion about bugs in various > versions of > SPSS - I myself know person who found some mistakes in SPSS tables > output > (it was probably version 12, 13 or 15 then - sorry I don't remember) > and > after some time received bug fixes correcting this output. > > And SPSS is commercial product, each version they distribute is > considered > to be complete and ready to be used. > > PSPP is developed by people who do that by their goodwill. PSPP is not > finished and sometimes we all find things that we want to do but it's > not > possible because these features are not yet implemented, but I really > appreciate the work of PSPP developers and all the people supporting > the > project. With current PSPP I can do many things the SPSS-way even > when I > don't have access to SPSS, and some things are easier for me to be > done > that way rather than in R or recently in Python (although there are > other > data operations and analysis that are much easier for me to be done > in R or > Python). > > > Happy New Year to all of you :-) > Michał Dubrawski > > > > -- > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. > >
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