I strongly support Robert's view. However, the maintainers seem to be more
interested in statistics than plain old tabulation. Has anyone an idea how
to implement even a stripped down version of CTABLES?

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2015-11-06 18:06 GMT+01:00 Robert Lutener <robe...@consumerscan.ca>:

> CTABLES is probably the most valuable feature of SPSS and is used by the
> vast majority of people that buy the SPSS license.  It is a real shame that
> PSPP doesn't have CTABLES as this would be a major factor in more
> widespread use of this open source solution.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ftr" <news....@free.fr>
> To: "pspp-users" <pspp-users@gnu.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 5:56:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Multi response sets in PSPP
>
> On 06/11/2015 11:24, Michał Dubrawski wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If the information here is up to date then we have MRSETS command
> implemented in PSPP
> http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#MRSETS
>
> Is there any way to display these MRSETS in the PSPP output - frequences,
> percentages or in corss tabs? I'm only using thses MRSETS in SPSS in
> CTables. I am aware that CTables are not implemented in PSPP and since it
> is very complicated won't rather be implemented in the nearest future.
>
> If it is not possible to display multi response, maybe implementation of
> MULT RESPONSE command would be a solution? Is it possoble to implement it?
>
> It is has an option to display frequences, percentages and even cross
> tabulation. I think that it would be very useful for users, what do you
> think?
>
> Thanks again to all the developers and people involved with PSPP project
> for all your work.
>
> kind regards,
>
> Michał Dubrawski
>
> Hi Michal,
>
> survey analyst NEED methods to study multiple-response variables. So I
> strongly support the idea to implement a Mult Response command.
>
> The help text ends with this cryptic sentence:
>
>
> Otherwise, multiple response sets are currently used only by third party
> software.
> Dear maintainers, would you please be so kind to explain which third party
> software is meant ?
>
> TIA
> -ftr
>
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