Hi

It is the version on
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/2017-11-16-ForTestingOnly/

Although marked as "ForTestingOnly" it is a fully functional version.

Have fun



2018-01-04 0:32 GMT+01:00 someone <maffyd...@aol.com>:

> Thanks for your response. I am kind of confused. You wrote
> "it was already in the 2017-07-30 version. However it is solved in the
> 2017-11-16 version"
>
> I am not exactly sure what version I am downloading. On this page
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/
> the download button seems to show 2017-09-09 and similarly this page
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/
> looks like the date says 2017-09-09
>
> Is there a way I can get the 2017-11-16 version?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gene
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Thijssen <pspp4wind...@gmail.com>
> To: bug-gnu-pspp <bug-gnu-p...@gnu.org>; pspp-users <pspp-users@gnu.org>;
> someone <maffyd...@aol.com>
> Sent: Wed, Jan 3, 2018 2:43 pm
> Subject: Re: PSPP-BUG: reading csv data set
>
> Hi Gene
>
> You indeed found a bug in the GUI of PSPP. I can reproduce it.
>
> The correct syntax for your import is:
> GET DATA
>   /TYPE=TXT
>   /FILE="C:\Users\xxxxx\Downloads\testing.csv"
>   /ARRANGEMENT=DELIMITED
>   /DELCASE=LINE
>   /FIRSTCASE=2
>   /DELIMITERS=","
>   /VARIABLES=
>     id F1.0
>     var1 F2.0
>     var2 F2.0.
>
> The bug must be there for a longer time as it was already in the
> 2017-07-30 version. However it is solved in the 2017-11-16 version.  This
> version is a bit experimental but has some benefits too. At least the issue
> with quotes when editing syntax is solved too.
>
> Have fun
>
>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:30:39 -0500
> From: someone <maffyd...@aol.com>
> To: bug-gnu-p...@gnu.org
> Subject: PSPP-BUG: reading csv data set
> Message-ID: <160b96d59f1-c0c-2...@webjasstg-vab16.srv.aolmail.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
>
> It seems highly possible there is some kind of bug with a version of pspp.
>
>
>
> I think I have windows 10, on a 64 bit laptop, and I downloaded pspp a
> couple of days ago from here
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/
>
>
>
>
> I am pretty sure there is something wrong with the pspp version I got.
> I made a simple csv file here, called "testing.csv"
>
>
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/gsocialchange/datasets
>
>
>
>
> I followed these steps on the pspp gui, and got a data set, but see the
> problems below
>
>
>
> file
> import data
> click on "testing.csv"
> buttons on lower right are "reset", "next", "cancel"
> click on next
> upper left shows
>         "Select the lines to import"
>         "Select file to import"
> lower right shows "reset", "next", "back", "finish" and "cancel"
> click on next
> upper left shows
>         "Select the first line"
>         "Select file to import"
> click on next
> upper left shows
>         "choose separators"
>         "Select file to import"
> now lower right only shows "reset", "next", "back" and "cancel"
> upper left shows
>         "adjust variable formats"
>         "Select file to import"
> lower right had "finish"
> click finish
>
>
> data set is read in, but:
> variable names disappeared
> there is an extra first and last line
>
>
>
>
> At each step where the upper left showed that I was -supposed- to be able
> to do something, there was no opportunity to do so, nothing appeared which
> would allow me to select, choose, adjust, or anything.
>
>
> This seems to be a really simple csv data set, and it didn't work, so I
> can only conclude this version of pspp isn't working, for the windows set
> up I have.
>
>
> Just fyi, I had the problem first with a data set at the same location,
> called pd_data_cia.csv. I -could- import the ods version of that data set.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Gene Shackman
> Albany NY
>
>
>
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