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1. Re: Various Problems With Latest PSPP Version (Alan Mead)
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:47:08 -0400
From: Alan Mead <ame...@alanmead.org>
To: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Various Problems With Latest PSPP Version
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Ricardo,
Sorry to hear you're having such problems. This looks like a serious
error and you should file a bug. I don't know if your dataset is
publicly available, but ideally you would include the dataset and the
PSPP syntax that generated the error. If the developers cannot replicate
your bug, then they cannot see what's wrong nor test their fixes.
Since I sent this email, I have discovered that the data set calculated by my
PSPP code is correct . The problem is exclusively related to running the
Descriptive. Each time I run the code first, open the file from the disk and
then run the Descriptive, on the same correct data set, it comes up with
different numbers. You should try to run a Descriptive on any data set to test
this. The data set is missing many records only when the Descriptive is run
together with the rest of the code.
If I had to guess, and it's just a guess, the size of your dataset may
be part of the issue.
I have been running this program for many months with a data set whose size
that has not changed much. This problem started when I first used the latest
version of PSPP.
Does that C++ assertion error happen every time? I wouldn't ignore it.
An assertion is code added to the program in an impossible place.
Ignoring it seems like it would lead to random results, which is what
you see.
The C++ assertion error has not shown up again after three additional runs of
the Descriptive, with the data set open. However, when this error message
happened, I was running the Descriptive together with and at the end of the
code. In that situation, the data set on the screen was filled with ???. Then
I opened the file on the disk and it had all the correct data that was supposed
to be there. For the next three tests, I just opened the file on the disk and
ran the Descriptive. In those three cases there was no error message, just
wrong numbers on the Descriptive.
I just ran the code and the Descriptive together again and this time, I did not
get the ???, but large numbers of records were missing and the Descriptives
were wrong again.
Also, dumb question maybe, but does this happen always right after a
fresh reboot?
I have not done a reboot of my computer since this started happening. However,
I have exited PSPP entirely and started again, and the problem continued.
Although it's always good advice to use the latest version, if you
experience new bugs (as you seem to be), then it's a common practice to
go back to a previous version that worked better.
How do I go back to the previous version? I asked this question before but got
no answer.
In your case, I might also be tempted to calculate some of these
descriptive statistics using simpler tools like a spreadsheet so you
have a better idea what the reality of your dataset is.
The data set is too large for a spreadsheet. It has about 14 million records.
-Alan
On 9/26/2023 9:05 AM, Ricardo Mejias wrote:
> At your suggestion, I upgraded to the lates version of PSPP:
> 1.6.2-g78a33a, on Windows. But I also deleted my previous version,
> which Ibelieve was [cid:939b582a-d8bb-457f-9894-6cb4832b4c7e] (from a
> previous email I sent you). I ran some regressions and everything
> went fine. But then I ran a fairly lengthy code that I have not
> changed since the last month I ran it, to create a report, and these
> very strange things happened:
> The data table showing up on the screen was filled with ??? on all
> cells. Sample:
>
> The Output does not show any errors.
> The file that was saved had the generally expected numbers on it when
> I opened it.
> Then I ran a DESCRITPIVES
> SET FORMAT COMMA16.4
> DESCRIPTIVES
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> STATISTICS SUM MEAN
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> /VARIABLES = SelectedFields_20230912 VoterIDParty_20230808 REP DEM NPA
> LPF OTH Aug2023EftReg Aug2023EftDeReg Aug2023LPFEftReg
> Aug2023LPFEftDeReg REPtoLPF DEMtoLPF NPAtoLPF OTHtoLPF LPFtoREP
> LPFtoDEM LPFtoNPA LPFtoOTH Active Inactive BlankStatus ActiveLPF
> InactiveLPF BlankStatusLPF Aug2023EftRegAge Aug2023LPFEftRegAge
> Aug2023MGender Aug2023FGender Aug2023UGender Aug2023BGender
> Aug2023EftRegMGender Aug2023EftRegFGender Aug2023EftRegUGender
> Aug2023EftRegBGender Aug2023LPFEftRegMGender Aug2023LPFEftRegFGender
> Aug2023LPFEftRegUGender Aug2023LPFEftRegBGender
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> and got this error message floating over the Output:
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> I clicked Ignore
>
> The descriptive was produced, but the numbers where completely out of
> line with the previous month by factors of between 0.5 and 5 times.
> This is voter registration data that simple does not change much from
> month to month.
>
> I ran the DESCRIPTIVE again and this time the above error message did
> not show up, but the numbers on the DESCRIPTIVE were still wrong.
>
> I am sure that I was using the exact same code with both PSPP
> versions. You may be able to fix this. But meanwhile, how can I get
> back the old version I had to be able to run this report on it?
>
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