For this kind of problems it might be better to use the debug version from https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/2020-09-26-ForTestingOnly/DebugVersion/ It will give the the information needed to identify the problem.
Look at the readme file how to use it. Stay safe Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:27:22 +0000 > From: Ricardo Mejias <ricardomej...@hotmail.com> > To: "pspp-users@gnu.org" <pspp-users@gnu.org>, > "j...@darrington.wattle.id.au" <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> > Subject: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 177, Issue 14 > Message-ID: > < > bn6pr19mb3234c8825f4c5202ff66a035b6...@bn6pr19mb3234.namprd19.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > To John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > > I think that the content of this earlier email may answer your questions. > > The file I was working with is a merge of voter registration data from all > of the counties in Florida (which is public information). Since I could > not make the N 100 work, I decided to do to the file of the smallest county > what I did to the Florida totals, so that I could have one small enough to > email it to you. First, I ran this smaller file on the same code. It > crashed one line before where the larger one used to crash, on NUMERIC > EndDate (F10). Then I re-ran the larger one and it also crashed one the > line before where it used to crash. > > But this time, the crashed happened when the Variables window showed up > and I tried to go to View Data. First an error message window popped up > saying "Assertion Failed". Retry and Ignore would not do anything, so I > clicked on Abort and had a crash. > > Then I ran the code on the smaller file through COMPUTE EndDate = > YRMODA(2021, 01, 31) and it also crashed. So, the file I have attached > should be good for testing whether or not you get the same results. > > Please let me know what you find and what solutions you suggest. > > GET /FILE = > "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedFieldsLIB_20210209.sav". > FILTER OFF. > USE ALL. > SELECT IF(NOT MISSING(BirthDate)). > STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5). > COMPUTE ResidenceZipcodes=SUBSTR(ResidenceZipcode,1,5). > DELETE VARIABLES ResidenceZipcode. /*Worked up to here. Crashes > after that*/ > NUMERIC EndDate (F10). /*Crashed here*/ > COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31). > EXECUTE. > FORMAT EndDate (ADATE10). > COMPUTE AgeInMonths = DATEDIFF(EndDate,BirthDate,'days') / (365.25*12). > >
