Re: Windows download link on gnu.org

[Thambu David]

Dear All

Is it possible to merge two PSPP files using the drop down menu?

I am not v comfortable suing syntax?

regards

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Re: Error installing

[Thambu David]

Harry

Thanks

I use Windows XP prof edition and the version of PSPP is this one from source 
forge

pspp-20160927-daily-32bits-setup.exe<https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/2016-09-27/pspp-20160927-daily-32bits-setup.exe/download>
 2016-09-28 39.9 MB

I tried what you suyggested but still have the problem?
thanks
thambu




From: harry.thijs...@gmail.com  on behalf of Harry 
Thijssen 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 3:16 AM
To: pspp-users; Thambu David
Subject: Re: Error installing

Hi

Stating the Operating system, installer version (date) you use and a text or 
jpg/png file of the error would definitely help to get a quicker answer.

It seems you are using MSWindows XP but I have no idea which version of the 
installer.

I tried with the 2016-09-27 version and this version doesn´t have this problem. 
I also don´t see any reason why other versions would have this problem.

It looks to me that somehow the dll was removed from your system.

I advise removing the pspp software, or just delete the whole pspp directory, 
and reinstall the latest version.

Have fun

 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:31:17 +
From: Thambu David mailto:tha...@cmcvellore.ac.in>>
To: Pspp-users mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>>
Cc: Pspp-users mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>>
Subject: Error installing

Dear All

While using the 32 bit installer i am getting this error?

Please advice

Thambu

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PSPP0.11 NOT on source forge

[Thambu David]

Dear All

Tried to download the 0.11 version for windows (32 bit) from source forge

However the latest version is GNU pspp 0.10.5-pre2g9a68ff

Keen to try the 0.11 version, could this be updated on source forge?

Many thanks again to all the thankless ours the developers have put in to this 
program

Thank you

Thambu
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RE: PSPP0.11 NOT on source forge

[Thambu David]

Thank you ..we the users..v obliged

From: harry.thijs...@gmail.com [harry.thijs...@gmail.com] on behalf of Harry 
Thijssen [pspp4wind...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 4:56 PM
To: Thambu David; pspp-users
Subject: Re: PSPP0.11 NOT on source forge

Hi Thambu

The main difference between 0.10.5-pre2g9a68ff  and 0.11 are updated German and 
Dutch translations. There are no functional differences.

So you can safely use 0.10.5-pre2g9a68ff as if it was 0.11 If you find issues 
they will also be present in the 0.11 version

I will wait a bit till more translations are updated before building a new 
version. Most likely in the last week of this month.

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graphs in PSPP

[Thambu David]

Hi
I am new to PSPP
Is there an option to make graphs in PSPP
Thanks
Thambu
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RE: graphs in PSPP

[Thambu David]

I am using the version 0.7.5-g70514b-is there a newer version?
Thambu
Medicine 2 and CEU
CMC
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632004


From: John Darrington [j...@darrington.wattle.id.au]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 1:20 PM
To: Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: graphs in PSPP

Many of PSPP's analysis options (such as EXAMINE, ROC, FACTOR etc) have features
to produce graphs, where it helps with the interpretation of the analysis.

However PSPP is primarily a statistical analysis tool, not a graphing tool.
If you are looking for a general purpose plotting engine I would recommend
gnuplot (See http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net )


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:19:35AM +0530, Thambu David wrote:

 Hi
 I am new to PSPP
 Is there an option to make graphs in PSPP
 Thanks
 Thambu
 Medicine 2 and CEU
 CMC
 Vellore
 India
 632004

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pspp.awardspace.com-not working?

[Thambu David]

Hi
Tried to download the latest version from the pspp.awardspace.com website but 
this site would not open??-any other site to get the latest version?
Thanks
Thambu
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From: Thambu David
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:19 AM
To: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: graphs in PSPP

Hi
I am new to PSPP
Is there an option to make graphs in PSPP
Thanks
Thambu
Medicine 2 and CEU
CMC
Vellore
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PSPP vs SPSS

[Thambu David]

Dear John/ Any PSS user
Can we use PSPP (0.75) as an alternative to SPSS in a teaching university-ie-is 
it acceptable in journal publications as a recognized software?
Are there any teaching materials available that i can use to teach students 
PSPP?
I find R as an alternative but is too complex for the beginer student-undergrad 
as well as post grad
would appreciate your advice
Thambu
Medicine 2 and CEU
CMC
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RE: PSPP vs SPSS

[Thambu David]

thanks
Thambu
Medicine 2 and CEU
CMC
Vellore
632004


From: John Darrington [j...@darrington.wattle.id.au]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:55 PM
To: Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PSPP vs SPSS

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:53:34PM +0530, Thambu David wrote:

 Can we use PSPP (0.75) as an alternative to SPSS in a teaching 
university-ie-is it acceptable in journal publications as a recognized software?

I have published a paper reporting results which were generated
by PSPP (and noted in the text as such).

 Are there any teaching materials available that i can use to teach 
students PSPP?

There's a number of resources floating around on the web.  Some of the better 
ones
have links from the pspp home page.  In addition, there are some training 
videos at:

* http://www.communicationresearch.info/software/PSPP/basic.html
* http://blogs.cofc.edu/fergusond/2010/

Many SPSS tutorials should also be suitable for students using PSPP.

J'


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RE: PSPP vs SPSS

[Thambu David]

thanks-can't follow portugese though
Thambu
Medicine 2 and CEU
CMC
Vellore
632004


From: Michel Boaventura [mic...@michelboaventura.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 8:41 PM
To: Jason Stover
Cc: Thambu David; pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PSPP vs SPSS

About the docs, there is a very introdutory tutorial, but in Portuguese
only. So far I didn't have the time to translate it:
wiki.michelboaventura.com

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RE: PSPP promotion at professional associations

[Thambu David]

Dear PSPP users,
I work at an university medical college in South India,with a vibrant research 
group
We are looking at SPSS alternatives-some are using R
How long before PSPP can perform equivalent to SPSS 11 or 12?-thats what most 
medical fraternity need
Thanks

Thambu
Medicine 2 and CEU
CMC
Vellore
632004


From: pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org 
[pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ken Reed 
[ken.r...@acspri.org.au]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 5:50 AM
To: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PSPP promotion at professional associations

I'm involved in organising the 8th International Conference on Social Science 
Methodology in July 2012, in Sydney, Australia:  
http://rc33conference2012.acspri.org.au

We'd include a demo/workshop on PSPP, if there's one or two experienced users 
in Sydney at that time, who can volunteer to help out. We don't have funds to 
cover attendance costs, though.

Email me or the conference address 
rc33confere...@acspri.org.au .

Ken

On 15 August 2011 02:25, Jason Stover 
mailto:j...@math.gcsu.edu>> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 05:42:14PM +, John Darrington wrote:
> I recall that Jason Stover said he did a poster presentation at a conference 
> some time ago.

Yes, I presented a poster on PSPP at the Joint Statistical Meetings in
2010. It went well, and some of the attendees stated they were
interested in using the software. I don't know how many of them
actually started using it, though.

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RE: PSPP promotion at professional associations

[Thambu David]

i should clarify-am v grateful to all you thanklessly do this-truly am-no 
offence meant to any of those mentioned/not mentioned
was in need of an answer to a problem-no money for SPSS and looking for an 
alternative with a user friendly gui
R commander is an option-again thanks to some philanthrophic individuals is free
Thambu
Medicine 2 and CEU
CMC
Vellore
632004


From: Galderisi, Peter [pgalder...@ucsd.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 10:45 PM
To: Jason Stover; Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: RE: PSPP promotion at professional associations

Might I remind everyone that, unlike IBM's (big money) SPSS, PSPP has been 
developed free of charge by several individuals who have been extremely 
generous with their time.  If we want a full equivalent of SPSS, then we need 
to raise enough money to hire enough people to create it.  Last time I tried 
such a fund raising idea, I had only two takers.  As long as we free ride on 
the efforts of Jason, Ben, Michel and company, we are very fortunate to have 
what already exists.

-Peter
==

Peter Galderisi
Lecturer
Department of Political Science
UC San Diego
pgalder...@ucsd.edu
858-926-0961 (message)


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Importing from Excell and Graphs

[Thambu David]

Dear All
Can anyone suggest how to import data from Excell without modifying it and also 
any easy way to make graphs-these would be very welcome for students
Thanks


Thambu
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RE: import data in PSPP

[Thambu David]

one  way is to save the excel file as a CSV file and then import

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


From: pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org 
[pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Esdras 
Adriano [esdras.adri...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 6:47 AM
To: olivier van Till
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: import data in PSPP

Greetings

He had problems importing data to PSPP. So, I save the excel files into text 
files and imported into the PSPP. But I am investigating whether there are 
other possibilities for importing files.

graciously

Esdras Adriano



2012/11/1 olivier van Till 
mailto:jwovant...@hotmail.com>>
Dear all,
Could anyone tell me how I can import data (from excel or word, etc.) into a 
PSPP database? Somehow copy/pating doesn't work (as it does in SPSS).
thanks!!!
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RE: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

[Thambu David]

Dear All
I work with Epidata and PSPP quite happily
However when i switched to Epidata manager i find that the expoted sps files do 
not run in PSPP
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks
Thambu

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


From: pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org 
[pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Paul Wright 
[pmwrightmil...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 1:41 PM
To: Ben Pfaff
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org; Micha? Dubrawski
Subject: Re: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

I mean I could add to its website, the information I have given
Could add to the FAQ a question like the following: PSPP accepts donations or 
financial assistance for their development?
In response could explain the reasons for not accepting donations and how you 
can help the project in other ways.

Paul

From: Ben Pfaff 
To: Paul Wright 
Cc: Parag Agrawal ; John Darrington 
; Micha? Dubrawski ; 
"pspp-users@gnu.org" 
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

Which website do you think this information should be on? I am not sure which 
one you mean.
On Aug 8, 2013 6:17 PM, "Paul Wright" 
mailto:pmwrightmil...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
It would be helpful if this information is found on its website.
I wrote an email to campai...@fsf.org<mailto:campai...@fsf.org>, but received 
no response.

I would ask them to reconsider the option to make donations to the project, 
because I believe that if you are responsible enough to carry out a project 
like PSPP can manage donations received. For example, trust services you hire 
other people to do it myself, because I lack expertise.


From: John Darrington 
mailto:j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>>
To: Paul Wright mailto:pmwrightmil...@yahoo.com>>
Cc: Ben Pfaff mailto:b...@cs.stanford.edu>>; Parag 
Agrawal mailto:ajpa...@gmail.com>>; 
"pspp-users@gnu.org<mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>" 
mailto:pspp-users@gnu.org>>; Micha? Dubrawski 
mailto:michal.dubraw...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

If you think the FSF should consider PSPP a 'high priority' project, please
write to campai...@fsf.org<mailto:campai...@fsf.org> and tell them.

Collecting donations has been considered before, but there are issues to 
consider
such as currency exchange, liability and trust.

If you have a specific feature that you want implemented, and are prepared to 
pay
a professional price to get it done, there are companies which can do that for
you.  One such company is www.cellform.com<http://www.cellform.com/>

If you want to volunteer to help development, then you are very welcome to do 
so.

J'

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:31:06PM -0700, Paul Wright wrote:
From what I understand there are few developers currently working in PSPP.

PSPP seems like a great project, could become a high-priority project of 
the FSF?. I understand that the support of this campaign aims to redirect 
efforts to the software developers promoted in the campaign.

PSPP is a great effort to be a free replacement for SPSS and perhaps an 
alternative to other similar software such as SAS or Stata. PSPP efforts are 
different from Octave, but equally valuable.

Also, could add to its web site donations, and promoting student projects 
for GSoC or similar.

As a user might ask for much and could not contribute code, but could make 
some money that could be invested in your valuable time or contract hours for 
other developers to work on PSPP.


Has any other ideas? a small campaign donations could be useful.

Paul



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RE: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

[Thambu David]

Wow!!
Thanks a ton Ben!
Much obliged by all you and the team do
cheers
Thambu

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


From: Ben Pfaff [b...@cs.stanford.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 11:10 AM
To: Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

Thanks a lot for the syntax file.  I found and fixed the problem.

To make your syntax work with the version of PSPP you already have,
delete the line "SET UNICODE=YES." from the syntax file.

Thanks,

Ben.

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Epidatamanager to PSPP issues

[Thambu David]

Hi
Small problem
This works some times and sometimes it gets into problems
This is the problem
The PSPP runs the file when i delete the line "SET UNICODE=YES"
However the datafile created, 2 or 3 variables get combined into 1 variable in 
the data for example the age , sex all are in one column;however in the same 
file if i look at the variable view,i see all data separately with the value 
labels separate and the codes separately
I am a bit confused if i have made some error
Please could you advice
Thanks
Thambu

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India

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Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:24 PM
To: Ben Pfaff
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

Wow!!
Thanks a ton Ben!
Much obliged by all you and the team do
cheers
Thambu

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


From: Ben Pfaff [b...@cs.stanford.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 11:10 AM
To: Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Importing quanvert file format .pkd to PSPP

Thanks a lot for the syntax file.  I found and fixed the problem.

To make your syntax work with the version of PSPP you already have,
delete the line "SET UNICODE=YES." from the syntax file.

Thanks,

Ben.

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RE: Epidatamanager to PSPP issues

[Thambu David]

Dear Ben
Here it is
Thanks
Thambu





From: Ben Pfaff [b...@cs.stanford.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 6:40 AM
To: Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Epidatamanager to PSPP issues

Thanks.

The .sps file refers to a .txt file.  I think that I will need that .txt
file also to be able to help.  Can you provide it too?

Thanks,

Ben.

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:37:57AM +0530, Thambu David wrote:
> Dear Ben
> I have attached the
> 1.epidatamanager file,
> 2. the epidata data file,
> 3. the screen shots of the PSPP run file,
> 4. the PSPP run file with the UNICODE=Yes deleted,
> 5. the PSPP datafile with the data view
> 6. The PSPP datafile with the variable view
> Thanks v much again
> much obliged
> Thambu
>
> Dr Thambu David S
> Professor and Head
> Medicine Unit 2
> Christian Medical College, Vellore
> 632004, India
>
> 
> From: Ben Pfaff [b...@cs.stanford.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:42 PM
> To: Thambu David
> Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Epidatamanager to PSPP issues
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Thambu David  
> wrote:
> > Small problem
> > This works some times and sometimes it gets into problems
> > This is the problem
> > The PSPP runs the file when i delete the line "SET UNICODE=YES"
> > However the datafile created, 2 or 3 variables get combined into 1 variable 
> > in the data for example the age , sex all are in one column;however in the 
> > same file if i look at the variable view,i see all data separately with the 
> > value labels separate and the codes separately
>
> Thank you for the report.
>
> I would like to fix the problem, but it is difficult to guess what it
> is from this description.  Do you have a small example that you can
> show me?








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RE: Epidatamanager to PSPP issues

[Thambu David]

Thanks Ben
Will try and ask for help with the epidata manager
regards
Thambu


Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


From: Ben Pfaff [b...@cs.stanford.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 1:54 AM
To: Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Epidatamanager to PSPP issues

Thanks for all the files.

I see the problem that you mention, but it does not look to me like it
is a bug in PSPP.  I will explain.

The DATA LIST command in the .sps file includes this line:
  / V1 1-2 V2 3-62(A) V3 63-64 V4 65 .

This line means that variable V1 is found in columns 1 and 2, variable
V2 (A for alphanumeric) is found in columns 3 through 62, V3 in 63 and
64, and V4 in 65.

However, the data file is not formatted this way.  It looks like V1 is
in columns 1 and 2, but V2 is in columns 3 through 22 (not 3 through
62), V3 is in column 23, and I don't see V4 at all.

So to me this looks more like a bug in Epidatamanager than in PSPP.

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RE: Problem mit PSPP

[Thambu David]

? The new version 0.8.2 is not available in windows version






Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


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[pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy 
Lavergne [jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:28 PM
To: pspp-users@gnu.org; sanderb...@aol.com
Subject: Re: Problem mit PSPP

On OS X you have to open the file from within PSPP.
The system cannot direct PSPP to open a file on double click.

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:17:39 -0500,  wrote:

> I have problems to open a file with the extension .sav in
> PSPP. PSPP open on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5), the file but not
> easy.
> Can you help me?

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Excell to PSPP direct?

[Thambu David]

Dear All
Is it possible for PSPP to directly import files from Excell without making 
them CSV-often this does not seem v straightforward
It would make implementing this as a SPSS alternate much easier
Most students and faculty are looking for a legal free alternate,but this is 
one area of difficulty
I hope the plan for this year could include this (if possible) being added to 
the to-do list
Thanks in advance
regards
Thambu


Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
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RE: Excell to PSPP direct?

[Thambu David]

:-)
Thanks alan!
I shall give Satya N some time to settle down-mean time i shall try Libre 
office!
regards
Thambu



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Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:12 PM
To: pspp-users@gnu.org; Thambu David
Subject: Re: Excell to PSPP direct?

Thambu,

What you're asking is not practical and perhaps impossible. Microsoft's
Office formats are extremely complex. I don't know how SPSS reads them
but I know it's very brittle. In the past, when I have saved data as an
.XLS file using LibreOffice, SPSS has failed to import it.  Also, Office
2010 has support for the Open Document Format that LibreOffice uses but
when Word tries to open the .ODT files I create using LibreOffice, it
reports them as "damaged" and needs to "recover" the file to open it.

If Microsoft and SPSS cannot handle these formats properly, it seems
impractical to hope that a small, open-source project could possible
solve these problems.

I second John's reply. I have LibreOffice and MS Office 2010 installed
and I can use LibreOffice for virtually all the tasks I need to do.
LibreOffice, BTW, is far superior in my experience in exporting CSV.  It
allows you to pick the character encoding, the delimiter, and the
quoting. The nice thing about picking the encoding is it the language is
English (i.e., if the data can be represented by ASCII) then I pick that
and things like smartquotes are automatically converted.  When I export
CSV from Excel, I get an unholy mess of quoted and non-quoted data in
whatever encoding Excel chooses.

One other suggestion, why not teach statistics entirely in
Excel/LibreOffice Calc? That's what many business schools do in the US.
Or, failing that, why not use SPSS/PSPP for all your needs? They're
basically advanced spreadsheets where you put the equations into syntax
instead of into the cells.

I do have a final suggestion that more directly addresses your question.
I think you just have matters backwards.  Microsoft is a
multi-multi-multi-billion-dollar company with billions of dollars in
reserves and literally an army of developers. If Microsoft decided to
make it easy for third parties to read their formats, it would be
practically feasible for them to do so.  I suggest that you contact
Microsoft and ask that they make their formats more interoperable or
release open-source libraries for reading their file formats.  The new
CEO's name is Satya Nadella. I suggest you contact him directly.

-Alan


On 2/14/2014 8:00 AM, Thambu David wrote:
> Dear All
> Is it possible for PSPP to directly import files from Excell without making 
> them CSV-often this does not seem v straightforward
> It would make implementing this as a SPSS alternate much easier
> Most students and faculty are looking for a legal free alternate,but this is 
> one area of difficulty
> I hope the plan for this year could include this (if possible) being added to 
> the to-do list
> Thanks in advance
> regards
> Thambu
>
>
> Dr Thambu David S
> Professor and Head
> Medicine Unit 2
> Christian Medical College, Vellore
> 632004, India
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RE: Excell to PSPP direct?

[Thambu David]

Well ,downloaded Libre Office and imported the Excell sheet and saved it. Tried 
importing to the pspp but failed!
Help!

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


From: Alan Mead [m...@iit.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:12 PM
To: pspp-users@gnu.org; Thambu David
Subject: Re: Excell to PSPP direct?

Thambu,

What you're asking is not practical and perhaps impossible. Microsoft's
Office formats are extremely complex. I don't know how SPSS reads them
but I know it's very brittle. In the past, when I have saved data as an
.XLS file using LibreOffice, SPSS has failed to import it.  Also, Office
2010 has support for the Open Document Format that LibreOffice uses but
when Word tries to open the .ODT files I create using LibreOffice, it
reports them as "damaged" and needs to "recover" the file to open it.

If Microsoft and SPSS cannot handle these formats properly, it seems
impractical to hope that a small, open-source project could possible
solve these problems.

I second John's reply. I have LibreOffice and MS Office 2010 installed
and I can use LibreOffice for virtually all the tasks I need to do.
LibreOffice, BTW, is far superior in my experience in exporting CSV.  It
allows you to pick the character encoding, the delimiter, and the
quoting. The nice thing about picking the encoding is it the language is
English (i.e., if the data can be represented by ASCII) then I pick that
and things like smartquotes are automatically converted.  When I export
CSV from Excel, I get an unholy mess of quoted and non-quoted data in
whatever encoding Excel chooses.

One other suggestion, why not teach statistics entirely in
Excel/LibreOffice Calc? That's what many business schools do in the US.
Or, failing that, why not use SPSS/PSPP for all your needs? They're
basically advanced spreadsheets where you put the equations into syntax
instead of into the cells.

I do have a final suggestion that more directly addresses your question.
I think you just have matters backwards.  Microsoft is a
multi-multi-multi-billion-dollar company with billions of dollars in
reserves and literally an army of developers. If Microsoft decided to
make it easy for third parties to read their formats, it would be
practically feasible for them to do so.  I suggest that you contact
Microsoft and ask that they make their formats more interoperable or
release open-source libraries for reading their file formats.  The new
CEO's name is Satya Nadella. I suggest you contact him directly.

-Alan


On 2/14/2014 8:00 AM, Thambu David wrote:
> Dear All
> Is it possible for PSPP to directly import files from Excell without making 
> them CSV-often this does not seem v straightforward
> It would make implementing this as a SPSS alternate much easier
> Most students and faculty are looking for a legal free alternate,but this is 
> one area of difficulty
> I hope the plan for this year could include this (if possible) being added to 
> the to-do list
> Thanks in advance
> regards
> Thambu
>
>
> Dr Thambu David S
> Professor and Head
> Medicine Unit 2
> Christian Medical College, Vellore
> 632004, India
>
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> Pspp-users@gnu.org
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>
> --
> Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program
> Department of Psychology
> Lewis College of Human Sciences
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> 3101 South Dearborn, 2nd floor
> Chicago IL 60616
>
> +312.567.5933 (Campus)
> +815.588.3846 (Home Office)
> +267.334.4143 (Mobile)
> +312.567.3493 (Fax)
>
> http://www.iit.edu/~mead
> http://www.alanmead.org
>
> Announcing the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing (JCAT), a
> peer-reviewed electronic journal designed to advance the science and
> practice of computerized adaptive testing: http://www.iacat.org/jcat

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RE: running syntax file from ui vs running syntax file from command prompt

[Thambu David]

I have a stata file in version 11. I want to convert it so i can open in PSPP
is there a simple legal way?
I cannot afford to buy stata or stat transfer
thanks
Thambu

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


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STATA to PSPP or SPSS done easy!-Epidata manager!

[Thambu David]

Dear All
An easy method to convert STATA files to PSPP or SPSS
The new version of epidata manager 1.4.4.4, has an option for import
Choose the STATA file-in the options do not forget to click the data icon or 
only the structure is imported
Now save as an epidata manager file
Now choose the export option and choose SPSS-done!
The whole process takes less than a minute and is easier than going through R 
which is great but requires a little more effort
Please give it a try!
regards
Thambu


Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


From: pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org 
[pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Thambu David 
[tha...@cmcvellore.ac.in]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:04 AM
To: John Darrington
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: RE: running syntax file from ui vs running syntax file from command
prompt

I have a stata file in version 11. I want to convert it so i can open in PSPP
is there a simple legal way?
I cannot afford to buy stata or stat transfer
thanks
Thambu

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


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RE: delete selected output

[Thambu David]

I found that saving the output as html, allows me to then copy the tables and 
past in any format i want

Dr Thambu David S
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


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[pspp-users-bounces+thambu=cmcvellore.ac...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of ftr 
[news@free.fr]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 6:29 PM
To: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete selected output

Thank you, sir. Your advice is the first step towards a presentable
output, thank you.

You might add that the table output in LibreOffice needs further
treatment as you get a mangled output, at least in Windows.

There is one option for pasting into Calc: unformatted text.
Once pasted to get a table that you can read in Calc you have to delete
here one row in two. I also tried with fixed columns

In Writer you have to change to page format landscape and use fixed font
Courier New as a font (like in "good old" SPSS times).

So my proposition for Ben: please work on the output so that you can
export it with no hassle.

Regards,
ftr

Answering to your philosophical text line I agree with you.
In German service offices you sometimes get welcomed by a joke:
Impossible client demands are treated immediately.
Miracles take a bit longer.
Magics might be ordered on special demand.


On 02/11/2014 05:41, dr soumalya ray wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 November 2014 7:41 PM, news  wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I guess it is not possible,
> nothing is "not possible"; "impossible" things just take a little bit more 
> time!
>
>> I ask as I want to output a single table into the LibreOffice
>> spreadsheet
> if i understand your question correctly, please do the following:-
>
> -finish your analysis
>
> -go to the output viewer. there are two panes.
>
> -the right pane contain your analysis, tables, histograms etc.
>
> -the left pane starts with "Get" and contains a list of commands (eg, 
> frequencies,crosstabs etc).
>
> -click on the required table (just once) in the left pane.
>
> -go to the edit-> copy.
>
> -open Libreoffice Calc
>
> - paste the table.
>
> -you should have the table now in libreoffice calc. worked for me in xubuntu 
> 14.04, libreoffice 4.2.6.2, PSPP 0.8.4.
>
> regards,
>
> som
>


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RE: 32bit support

[Thambu David]

Dear Ben and Harry
I use the windows version and teach students at my college to use the same
The new versions seem easily downloadable at the source forge website.
The current version : pspp-084-20150210-64bits-Setup.exe (21.4 MB) is only for 
64 bit computers
We would be delighted if you could do us the 32 bit build for this?
thanking you
kind regards
Thambu
Dr Thambu David Sudarsanam MD, DipNB
Professor and Head
Medicine Unit 2 and Clinical Epidemiology Unit
Christian Medical College, Vellore
632004, India


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From: Ben Pfaff [b...@cs.stanford.edu]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 10:15 PM
To: Thambu David
Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org; Harry Thijssen
Subject: Re: 32bit support

PSPP supports 32-bit and 64-bit computers.  I guess that you must be
talking about some specific build of PSPP--perhaps the Windows version?
If that's the case, you could ask Harry Thijssen, who builds the Windows
version, for a 32-bit build.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 06:46:55PM +0530, Thambu David wrote:
> All new versions seem to support only 64bit computers
> Is this a given as computers advance or will we have 32bit versions of every 
> release?
> thanks
>
> Dr Thambu David Sudarsanam MD, DipNB
> Professor and Head
> Medicine Unit 2 and Clinical Epidemiology Unit
> Christian Medical College, Vellore
> 632004, India
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