Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de

2013-09-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 01:31:52PM +, Lena Gringhuis wrote: > I have downloaded the PSPP version 0.7.10-g330012 to get an analysis > of my questionnaire for my Bachelor thesis. I sent out a request for help from users with access to SPSS. If we get some responses (perhaps with a little follow

Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de

2013-05-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:26:33PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > One improvement we could make: In GET DATA we insist that the /FILE > subcommand appears immediately after the /TYPE subcommand. But the > provided file has it further down. We could be a little more relaxed > about this requireme

Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de

2013-05-28 Thread John Darrington
If somebody can answer Ben's questions, then we can probably make whatever changes are appropriate. Anyway the biggest part of Lena's problem can be fixed using the method I suggested (but I think she will have to do a bit of manual fixup - I think pspp is behaving as intended - but the generat

AW: Problems with data import from q-set.de

2013-05-28 Thread Lena Gringhuis
Eventmanagement Von: T James [gsr...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013 15:19 An: John Darrington Cc: Lena Gringhuis; pspp-users@gnu.org Betreff: Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de I had the same problem (the error message when trying to import .csv

Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de

2013-05-28 Thread T James
I had the same problem (the error message when trying to import .csv files) with 0.8.2 & 0.8.3. Rather than deal with the trouble with figuring it out (I am no programmer), I just imported the .sav file from SPSS and had no further issues. It would, however, be great if we could work together t

Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de

2013-05-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 08:49:30PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > Indeed, these files are wierd. They seem to use a single CR as a line > separator. I've never seen a file like that before - effectively both > files contain only one line. I think that this (CR as new-line) is the convention tha

Re: Problems with data import from q-set.de

2013-05-26 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 01:31:52PM +, Lena Gringhuis wrote: I have done a questionnaire for my Bachelor thesis with the German provider q-set.de. There, I got two documents as you can find attached. I downloaded the program PSPP as I know that this is a nice alternative to SPSS. N