Importing data from other file formats than .sav

2009-11-13 Thread Erik Frebold
We advertise that pspp "interoperates with a variety of programs such as (Gnumeric) and OpenOffice.org". I'm having a bit of difficulty getting this to happen. What I'd like to do is get pspp to read data files output from simple python modules. Thus far, I've been trying to use psppire's "impo

gtk version--importance of version 2.12 versus 2.10?

2009-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Here's a problem driven by the use of "Enterprise Linux". Supposedly more "stable", also harder to keep up-to-date! pspp INSTALL file says that gtk2 >= 2.12 is required, along with libglade > 2.6. In RedHat/Centos 5.4, the included version of libglade is sufficient (libglade2-2.6.0-2), but unfor

pspp, how we can help, non programmers

2009-11-13 Thread Gene Shackman
Hi I'm not a programmer, so I can't really do development work.  I can do things like spreading the word, getting pspp listed on other web sites, and am working on that.  What other things could I, and other non programmers, do?  Review some documentation or prepare some?  Other things? Gene

Correlations?

2009-11-13 Thread Erik Frebold
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I find PSPPIRE calculates Pearson R between variables very nicely using Analyze-Descriptive Statistics-Crosstabs, and results agree with SPSS. Or are we talking about a different sort of correlation? ___ Pspp-users

Re: My two cents

2009-11-13 Thread William Simpson
I agree 100% with Peter!! Put up or shut up, folks! That's the beauty of open source. You have the code in front of you. Feel free to modify to suit your own needs. And if you're feeling generous, give away what you've done. I in no way was asking for features. Somebody started asking about featur

Re: My two cents

2009-11-13 Thread Patrick Welch
I don't know if PSPP has participated in google summer of code before, but if not, that may be an interesting way to attract new and eager young developers - who may turn into active long term developers. A secondary option, if Ben and the other developers do not want or need our financial cont

My two cents

2009-11-13 Thread Galderisi, Peter
I also would like to have many more 'SPSS' features in PSPP. But, please remember, this is FREE, and the development is all voluntary (I couldn't even get Ben to accept a small donation for his years of service to us). Sure--let's request what we think would be needed, but let's remember that B

Re: next version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Mead
Ah, well, then my last, long semi-ranting email is probably for naught, but I'm very pleased to hear this! I'll probably wait until michel makes a Windows binary available, because I've never gotten the gui to build on Fedora. -Alan John Darrington wrote: Both CORRELATIONS and RELIABILITY a

Re: next version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread John Darrington
Both CORRELATIONS and RELIABILITY are in the version 0.7.x (aka "master"). If you want to try it out I suggest that you download a tarball from http://pspp.benpfaff.org/~blp/ The RELIABILTY command is not complete. But it does calculate Cronbach's Alpha which is what most people seem to want it

Re: next version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Mead
William Simpson wrote: I'm honestly shocked that no one else has mentioned correlations in this I have 0.7.2 and it has analyse/linear regression I tested it just now and it gives r-squared. Take the square root and use the sign of the slope -- voila, Pearson r. As for reliability... Isn'

Re: next version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread William Simpson
> > I'm honestly shocked that no one else has mentioned correlations in this > thread... Is there a build switch that does enable some naive implementation > of correlations? Or they've been implemented and I missed it? [I've got to > be honest, I don't bother installing new versions because unti

Re: development version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread William Simpson
OK thanks a lot for your reply. I think I will wait for the binary :-) Cheers Bill On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, unknown-1 wrote: >>I went to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/ download directory >>Most recent file is pspp-0.6.2.tar.gz 11-Oct-2009 17:39 3.2M > >>http://git.savannah.gnu.org/

Re: next version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Mead
Jason Stover wrote: I'm not sure about the time frame, but among the new statistical procedures will be GLM. What kinds of analyses do you most need? Are correlations available yet? (Last week, my student just showed me his PSPP installation and "Analyze > Correlations" was not an option.)

Re: development version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread unknown-1
>I went to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/ download directory >Most recent file is pspp-0.6.2.tar.gz 11-Oct-2009 17:39 3.2M >http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git >Again, most recent thing I see is v0.6.2-pre1 pspp-0.6.2-pre1.tar.gz Right. On http://pspp.benpfaff.org/~blp/ you can fin

development version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread William Simpson
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, John Darrington wrote: > Don't forget that you're always welcome to download the latest development > version - just bear in mind it hasn't been thoroughly tested. If you just > want > to know the major changes between the released version and the development >

Re: next version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread Karel Novotny
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 07:35 +, William Simpson wrote: > My two cents > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Gene Shackman wrote: > > > > Sounds like a lot of great work being done on PSPP. I also add my thanks > > to those developing the package. > > > > A couple of basic things were these t

Re: next version of PSPP

2009-11-13 Thread p666
I think that PSPP' main use is for heavy datafiles processing, where R cannot be used. PSPP, like SPSS, is a competitor for SAS. programming capabilities are not on the same level between SAS, SPSS and R or on another level matlab etc... so what are the strength of these big datafiles systems ?