Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Michał Dubrawski
Hi, If the information here is up to date then we have MRSETS command implemented in PSPP http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#MRSETS Is there any way to display these MRSETS in the PSPP output - frequences, percentages or in corss tabs? I'm only using thses MRSETS in SPSS in CTables

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread ftr
On 06/11/2015 11:24, Michał Dubrawski wrote: Hi, If the information here is up to date then we have MRSETS command implemented in PSPP http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#MRSETS Is there any way to display these MRSETS in the PSPP output - frequences, percentages or in corss

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 11:24:18AM +0100, Michał Dubrawski wrote: > If the information here is up to date then we have MRSETS command > implemented in PSPP > http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#MRSETS > > Is there any way to display these MRSETS in the PSPP output - frequences, > per

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Michał Dubrawski
Thanks a lot Ben for your quick answer! Have you considered MULT RESPONSE command implementation? Like I wrote before today it is has an option to display frequences, percentages and even cross tabulation and I think that it would be very useful to have it in PSPP, but I'm just asking. kind rega

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Robert Lutener
CTABLES is probably the most valuable feature of SPSS and is used by the vast majority of people that buy the SPSS license. It is a real shame that PSPP doesn't have CTABLES as this would be a major factor in more widespread use of this open source solution. - Original Message - From:

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Matthias Faeth
I strongly support Robert's view. However, the maintainers seem to be more interested in statistics than plain old tabulation. Has anyone an idea how to implement even a stripped down version of CTABLES? Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 20

RE: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Charles Johnson
I agree with the suggestion. Baccalaureate courses, biostatistics and generally in the early years of social sciences, these tools are very useful. I hope the developers can add to your to-do list, considering that they use their free time to this project. CJT ---

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Robert Lutener
There is no interest from the developers to do this. A while back someone even offered to put down $500 of their own money and others volunteered a few hundred each on top to bring this about but it was stated that there is no interest from the developers to implement this functionality. Which

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Alan Mead
I recently added a small feature to PSPP, and I think if someone had money and wanted to fund a feature, it might be possible to do so. For my small feature, I had to complete some paperwork to assign my copyright to FSF. Then I added the feature to the code and tested it. Then I modified the docu

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Frans Houweling
Hi all, I am not one of the - bless them - developers. I am a old TABLES user. Lately (20 years or so) the output is not considered "presentation quality" anymore. So I find myself exporting the TABLES output in order to get it into Microsoft Office stuff, where AGGREGATE + SAVE TRANSLATE wo

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Robert Lutener
The big reason is for output for complex subheadings and big banner reports. This is what everyone in my industry uses SPSS for. Actually, it is the only thing that they use it for. In terms of presentation I know it is ugly as all hell but there really isn't a substitute for the CTABLES func

​ Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Michał Dubrawski
If developers are not interested in the task - we cannot complain about it. I have great respect for them, and appreciate it that they have spent so much of their time to make PSPP possible. I remember time when there was not GUI, or when the output was in plain text - the project has gone a long w

Re: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Frans Houweling
I see. In my industry, too, you defined a big banner, submitted to EDP and waited at the continuous paper printer for the everything-by-everything crosstabs. I bet the developers are excited. On 06/11/2015 19:54, Robert Lutener wrote: The big reason is for output for complex subheadings and bi

RE: Multi response sets in PSPP

2015-11-06 Thread Charles Johnson
I do not think you have to use such harsh words. I insist that developers do their best in their free time. I think we can do other initiatives such as pay to companies to do the job or make donations to commission new features to PSPP. Another great idea is to include PSPP request as part of "

CTABLES

2015-11-06 Thread John Darrington
Funding the implementation of a fully blown CTABLES at commercial rates, I think would cost well into 5 figures. However, it is perhaps possible, that a smaller subset of CTABLES could be undertaken by an altruistic programmer who has some time on his hands and wishes to earn a bit of money for a