Re: Schedule for next version? & Some Volunteerism

2008-08-21 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:26:53PM -0400, Andy Choens wrote: And, since I'm sticking my foot solidly in my mouth with this post, I should pony up and volunteer. I can't help but notice that the documentation that's on the site is a little out of date (0.4). What should I do t

Re: PSPP Windows - Recode Multiple Variables ?

2008-08-21 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:35:53AM -0400, Andy Choens wrote: What I wrote should work on the windows version too. I'm not real sure how (if) you can use the GUI to actually recode multiple variables into one. Although the GUI is fairly powerful, I'm not sure that capacity exist

Re: Schedule for next version? & Some Volunteerism

2008-08-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Andy Choens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And, since I'm sticking my foot solidly in my mouth with this post, I > should pony up and volunteer. I can't help but notice that the > documentation that's on the site is a little out of date (0.4). What > should I do to get involved with helping with do

Re: PSPPIRE Interactive Mode

2008-08-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Andy Choens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As an old vim die-hard . . . . I hate to admit it . . . . but > I am really enjoying emacs. If you wanted to write up something to provide something like "PSPP mode" for Vim, then I'm sure we'd be happy to include it with PSPP as well. I assume that th

Re: Schedule for next version? & Some Volunteerism

2008-08-21 Thread Jason Stover
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:26:53PM -0400, Andy Choens wrote: > I think this project could benefit from the kind of positive attention > that other projects like Gnash get. Given the high quality of the 0.6.0 > release, I'm surprised by the minimal promotion of PSPP within the FOSS > community

Schedule for next version? & Some Volunteerism

2008-08-21 Thread Andy Choens
I rarely get this excited by a piece of software, but this one has really grabbed me by the toes. I am also of the opinion that PSPP is exactly the kind of software Linux needs to transition knowledge workers to FOSS. I still like R-CRAN, but using it in an office dominated by SPSS workers is d

Re: PSPP Windows - Recode Multiple Variables ?

2008-08-21 Thread David Purdy
Andy, "If you want to use my example, use the GUI to input the variables and cases. Then go to File -> New -> Syntax and cut and paste my syntax (code) into the syntax window. Make sure you get ALL of it, including the periods (It won't work without the periods.) Then Run -> All." Yes that's f

Re: PSPP Windows - Recode Multiple Variables ?

2008-08-21 Thread Andy Choens
David Purdy wrote: Andy (/Jason),   Many thanks for the COMPUTE suggestion and example - how is this implemented in the Windows/GUI version ?   I've tried various codings but with no success (and can't trace any other examples).   Regards,   Dave. What I wrote should

Re: PSPPIRE Interactive Mode

2008-08-21 Thread Andy Choens
John Darrington wrote: It's not exactly what you want, but the syntax window does a similar thing. Most (all?) of the dialog boxes have a "Paste" button which inserts the syntax into the window. You can then edit it as you like. Based on one of your earlier suggestions, I have been exper

Re: !SPAM! PSPP for Mac?

2008-08-21 Thread John Darrington
Can you explain exactly what problem you were having? Last time I tried, the Mac didn't give any problems. J' On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:46:04AM -0700, alma rivera wrote: Start SpamAssassin results -- This mail is probably spam. The original me

PSPP for Mac?

2008-08-21 Thread alma rivera
Even though I have read that PSPP can work on a Mac, I did the download and cant seem to make it work. I have a Macbook (Intel), is there a version of PSPP that can work? Does anyone know of a statistical program (preferable open source or free) that can work on OS X? I am a poor graduate stu

Re: PSPPIRE Interactive Mode

2008-08-21 Thread John Darrington
It's not exactly what you want, but the syntax window does a similar thing. Most (all?) of the dialog boxes have a "Paste" button which inserts the syntax into the window. You can then edit it as you like. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:00:17PM -0400, Andy Choens wrote: > I can see that PSPP has a

Re: PSPP Windows - Recode Multiple Variables ?

2008-08-21 Thread David Purdy
Andy (/Jason), Many thanks for the COMPUTE suggestion and example - how is this implemented in the Windows/GUI version ? I've tried various codings but with no success (and can't trace any other examples). Regards, Dave. - Original Message - From: Andy Choens To: David Purdy