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

2015-11-07 Thread Matthias Faeth
other departments. >> For their stats stuff they typically use R or Stata. >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Matthias Faeth" >> To: "robertl" >> Cc: "ftr" , "pspp-users" >> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015

Re: CTABLES

2015-11-07 Thread Matthias Faeth
I think we have to find somebody who has done that kind of project steering before (I haven't). Can everybody look into their contacts to find somebody who would have the skills and will to steer such a project? However I'd volunteer to participate in the workgroup defining the priority of the fun

Re: CTABLES

2015-11-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
I'm not sure if I get the discussion under the label CTABLES here: why should "production jobs" replace CTABLES? Or is it just that there are 3 open topics by now 1. CTABLES 2. Production jobs 3. Reading .spv files and the discussion is on which to focus time and energy? Anybody give me a hint,

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
I personally never use production jops and also never save .spv files but export results to excel. But I might be untypical. Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-11-08 18:15 GMT+01:00 Ben Pfaff : > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 10:10:43AM +010

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
Correction: Do I understand correctly "production job" = "marco functionality"? Than I use that. Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-11-08 18:21 GMT+01:00 Matthias Faeth : > I personally never use production j

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
Syntax is saved anyway. Furthermore, it is no bad idea to save a "program" (=clean set of syntax) for all transformations and tables in case you find errors in the data after you have done tabulation and want to start anew. But this is probably not what Alan and John were up to discuss? Matthias F

Re: CTABLES

2015-11-09 Thread Matthias Faeth
e 2015-11-08 23:54 GMT+01:00 Ben Pfaff : > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 06:20:25PM +0100, Matthias Faeth wrote: > > I'm not sure if I get the discussion under the label CTABLES here: why > > should "production jobs" replace CTABLES? > > > > Or is it just that

Re: CTABLES

2015-11-09 Thread Matthias Faeth
could serve as a workaround. I think that might be worthwhile to discuss. Any opinions on that? Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-11-09 16:06 GMT+01:00 Ben Pfaff : > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:28:30AM +0100, Matthias Faeth wr

Macros

2015-11-16 Thread Matthias Faeth
That is great news, so I changed the topic to Macros. @all: 1. How is your view on that? For recall: Frans promised to support us with macro code which could serve as "replacement" for certain CTABLES functions once PSPP would support macros. 2. How would you propose to proceed on that? Is there

Re: GSoC 2016 for PSPP

2015-11-19 Thread Matthias Faeth
good idea in my POV. Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-11-19 15:32 GMT+01:00 Charles Johnson : > I've seen mentioned a few times the GSoC. > Do you think it would be good to have a wiki or web section of PSPP to > mention it? > > It

Re: Macros

2015-11-23 Thread Matthias Faeth
I'm not a programmer but only a user. So I'm probably not much of a help with programming. However, if I can help otherwise, I'm willing to contribute to the macro project. Let me know. Matthias 2015-11-22 7:01 GMT+01:00 Ben Pfaff : > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 02:07:54PM +0100, John Darrington w

Re: Macros

2015-11-23 Thread Matthias Faeth
hen it would save the programmer time. > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:26:57PM +0100, Matthias Faeth wrote: > > I'm not a programmer but only a user. > > > > So I'm probably not much of a help with programming. > > > > However, if I can help otherwise,

Re: PSPP CTABLES

2018-07-25 Thread Matthias Faeth
Great News - I'd long to see CTABLES in PSPP. If there is anything we can do to assist you with this project give us a note. For me Ronald's suggestion to opt for TABLES instead would be also alright, if this is easier to implement. 2018-07-24 23:30 GMT+02:00 Ben Pfaff : > There might be some sm

Re: macro processing examples for PSPP

2021-05-09 Thread Matthias Faeth
It seems that MPRINT does not do anything in the output. Whether it is set to on or off there is no reprinting of macros. At least with the type of macros I use. Am Di., 4. Mai 2021 um 20:38 Uhr schrieb Ben Pfaff : > (I have 7700 examples of SPSS output and none of them contains the > string MPR

Re: macro processing examples for PSPP

2021-05-09 Thread Matthias Faeth
ded. Am So., 9. Mai 2021 um 16:17 Uhr schrieb Frans Houweling < fhouwel...@email.it>: > It should print the expanded macro. Do you have SET PRINTBACK = ON. ? > On 5/9/21 3:25 PM, Matthias Faeth wrote: > > It seems that MPRINT does not do anything in the output. Whether it is set &g

Re: multiple response sets MRSETS

2021-11-21 Thread Matthias Faeth
Although MRSETS is surely important, for me CTABLES would be much more urgent Matthias Am Fr., 19. Nov. 2021 um 21:04 Uhr schrieb ft gmail : > Thanks for the answers. I was just curious as I used this feature in > survey analysis when I had access to SPSS and I was not not sure if I > had not

Re: What's happened to PSPP?

2022-03-11 Thread Matthias Faeth
Hi Roy I do not know which version of Mint you have. If it is older: up to Ubuntu 17.04 you might install it by adding Adams PPA https://launchpad.net/~adamzammit/+archive/ubuntu/pspp Matthias Fäth Am Fr., 11. März 2022 um 11:21 Uhr schrieb Roy Powell : > Hi > > Thanks for the info. Just got

Re: more CTABLES progress

2022-08-17 Thread Matthias Faeth
Wow! Can't wait to test this. Anyone who will provide an appimage? Am Mo., 15. Aug. 2022 um 21:16 Uhr schrieb Frans Houweling < fhouwel...@email.it>: > Robinson Crusoe was an amateur. You sir, are incredible! > > On 8/15/22 07:29, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Today, I finished writing tests for the CTA

Re: PSPP new line issue

2022-09-13 Thread Matthias Faeth
o., 8. Sept. 2022 um 11:25 Uhr schrieb Matthias Faeth : > Hi Ben > > today I tried to check the CR/LF issue > > Opened PSPP and typed into a new window > > ctables /table q1r1 +q1r2 by rec_q2. > which worked fine > > but this did not work > ctables /table q1r1 +

Re: PSPP new line issue

2022-10-03 Thread Matthias Faeth
u been able to get this working? > > Adam > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 4:11 AM Matthias Faeth wrote: > >> Hi Ben >> >> I installed 's latest flatpak PSPP on my fedora laptop to check out the >> new ctables feature. >> >> Same issues as with my u

Bug in Flatpak version

2023-03-12 Thread Matthias Faeth
I played around with the latest flatpak version but PSPP was unstable Finally it gave me this: Segmentation Violation [image: image.png] I'd share the data file on a personal basis to Ben or John if you are interested

Ctables

2023-04-07 Thread Matthias Faeth
Hi this command crashes reproducible pspp (GNU pspp 1.6.2-ga2512f - Flatpak) ctables /table (kauf > alt) [count f2.0] by ort > int. while working on SPSS. Matthias Fäth Calle San Ramon 5 ES- 46780 Oliva Handy DE: +49 171 98 32 175 Movile ES: +34 682 33 94 02 Email: m.fa...@gmx.de

PSPPire

2023-04-07 Thread Matthias Faeth
Anybody else finding it strange that we cannot close the target (output) window without closing the datafile, too? I often close this window in the middle of my work for better overview purposes. Matthias Fäth Calle San Ramon 5 ES- 46780 Oliva Handy DE: +49 171 98 32 175 Movile ES: +34 682 33 94

Re: PSPPire

2023-04-07 Thread Matthias Faeth
...@gmx.de Am Fr., 7. Apr. 2023 um 17:55 Uhr schrieb Ben Pfaff : > That shouldn't be the case. They should close independently. Maybe > there's a bug causing a crash when you close one. (I just tried and > that doesn't happen for me.) > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 1:37 A

Re: Multiple response tables

2023-04-17 Thread Matthias Faeth
Hi Matt MRSETS support for CTABLES is not implemented yet. It exists only for compatibility reasons in the file format. We all are eagerly waiting for the feature. Titles is ctables /table ... /titles title='sometitle'. Matthias Fäth Calle San Ramon 5 ES- 46780 Oliva Handy DE: +49 171 98 32 17

PSPPire default editor

2023-04-21 Thread Matthias Faeth
is it possible to user change the default editor in PSPPire (e.g. to geany)? Regards Matthias

Re: Multiple response tables

2023-05-11 Thread Matthias Faeth
Yeah! 👍 Matthias Fäth Calle San Ramon 5 ES- 46780 Oliva Handy DE: +49 171 98 32 175 Movile ES: +34 682 33 94 02 Email: m.fa...@gmx.de Am Do., 11. Mai 2023 um 17:39 Uhr schrieb Ben Pfaff : > Multiple response features get requested fairly often, so I do plan to > work on them. It will still be

Re: Multiple response tables

2023-05-14 Thread Matthias Faeth
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Re: PSPPire

2023-05-28 Thread Matthias Faeth
ff wrote: > > > > Thanks. I'll put those on my list of bugs to fix. > > > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 9:47 AM Matthias Faeth wrote: > > > > > > Well - found out that I can indeed close it independently with a mouse > in the window title bar. But it lacks C

Re: pspp-2.0.0-pre2 released [testing]

2023-11-01 Thread Matthias Faeth
Sounds exciting. Are you releasing a flatpak version, too? Matthias Fäth Calle San Ramon 5 ES- 46780 Oliva Handy DE: +49 171 98 32 175 Movile ES: +34 682 33 94 02 Email: m.fa...@gmx.de Am Mi., 1. Nov. 2023 um 04:37 Uhr schrieb Ben Pfaff : > I'm very pleased to announce the release of a new vers

Re: pspp-2.0.0-pre2 released [testing]

2023-11-02 Thread Matthias Faeth
e flatpak for the most recent build can always be found at > https://benpfaff.org/~blp/pspp-master/latest-org.gnu.pspp.flatpakref > > On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 12:58 AM Matthias Faeth wrote: > >> Sounds exciting. Are you releasing a flatpak version, too? >> >> Matthias F

Re: CTABLES sample size & total

2023-12-23 Thread Matthias Faeth
Hi Frans, just with this I discovered your blog: morewithdata.net looks really great and will give me months of reading time, great work! 😁 Do you provide RSS Feed so that I do not miss out on the news? https://www.morewithdata.net/feed/ does not do the trick in my feedreader (Feedbro add on for

Re: CTABLES sample size & total

2023-12-23 Thread Matthias Faeth
Well, I do not have any idea about feeds either However, typing https://www.morewithdata.net/feed/ into my browser (firefox, chromium, chrome) leads me directly to a xlm page without style information. Whereas e.g. typing https://correctiv.org/feed/ lets me download a small file that I can open i

Re: Problem with importing data (.csv, .ods)

2023-12-27 Thread Matthias Faeth
I use PSPP 2.0 (Flatpak version) under Ubuntu 22.04 and it works as intended. if you have flatpak installed try: sudo flatpak install https://benpfaff.org/~blp/pspp-master/latest-org.gnu.pspp.flatpakref Matthias Am Di., 26. Dez. 2023 um 11:50 Uhr schrieb Sabine Dettling < sabine.dettl...@gmx.de

Re: Problem with importing data (.csv, .ods)

2023-12-27 Thread Matthias Faeth
or you tr it by syntax GET DATA /TYPE=ODS /FILE="/youtfilehere.ods" /SHEET=index 1 /READNAMES=ON /CELLRANGE=RANGE "A1:W905". Matthias Am Mi., 27. Dez. 2023 um 15:53 Uhr schrieb Matthias Faeth : > I use PSPP 2.0 (Flatpak version) under Ubuntu 22.04 and it work

Re: CTABLES

2024-02-09 Thread Matthias Faeth
Why not use Frans very good examples and blog to get fluent in Ctables again? https://www.morewithdata.net/blog/20221030-ctables-exercises-part-i.html Matthias Am Fr., 9. Feb. 2024 um 12:25 Uhr schrieb ft gmail : > Hi, > > I am really glad the PSPP crew published the CTABLES procedure. Thank

Re: how to copy & paste table as graphic

2024-02-09 Thread Matthias Faeth
If you want bmp, you might just do a screenshot, no? Am Fr., 9. Feb. 2024 um 14:39 Uhr schrieb Andreas Hammer < aham...@t-online.de>: > That's it. > > I didn't think it was a bug. > > Am 09.02.2024 um 13:50 schrieb Friedrich Beckmann: > > I guess the different behaviour was introduced here: > >

Multi Response

2013-01-10 Thread Matthias Faeth
Hi the only thing that prevents me from switching from SPSS to PSPP is that I cannot find Multi Response support. Any plans to add this (or is that already done and I just have to upgrade?) I use PSPPIRE 0.7.9 on Ubuntu 12.4 LTS. Regards Matthias ___ P

PSPP 0.8.4

2014-10-01 Thread Matthias Faeth
Dear all I have just installed version 0.8.4 by using ppa:adamzammit/pspp on my ubuntu 14.04 amd64 machine. Trying to open an existing original SPSS .sav file results in a crash (yes I tried it with several different ones). When invoking psppire from the command line I can see the following err

Re: PSPP 0.8.4

2014-10-01 Thread Matthias Faeth
ild it and report back on this. Regards Matthias Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de Skype: hiaska 2014-10-01 20:49 GMT+02:00 John Darrington : > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:38:16PM +0200, Matthias Faeth wrote: > Dear all &

Re: PSPP 0.8.4

2014-10-02 Thread Matthias Faeth
ou able to provide a SAV file that fails so I can test it here? > > > > Regards, > > Adam Zammit > > > > On 2 October 2014 05:00, Matthias Faeth > <mailto:m.fa...@gmx.de>> wrote: > > > > Yes Adam is i

Re: multiple response set

2015-01-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
I would support that. Multi Response is the one procedure that lets me stick to SPSS. I'm not a progammer but would help with testing and comparing. Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-01-08 14:36 GMT+01:00 news : > > > On 08/01/2015 06

Re: multiple response set

2015-01-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
gt; responses, it's usually easier to enter the individual responses as > independent variables, but you could create them using string functions. > So, again, SPSS without MULT RESPONSE seems perfectly adequate and MULT > RESPONSE doesn't actually handle all multiple-responses situa

Re: multiple response set

2015-01-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
count NUMLIKES = var82 to var84 (1). > FREQ/ NUMLIKES. > > And I suspect that you could do a crosstabs with NUMLIKES and get the same > kind of information as CTABLES. > > -Alan > > > On 1/8/2015 11:31 AM, Matthias Faeth wrote: > > Well I use MRSETS usually for o

Re: multiple response set

2015-01-10 Thread Matthias Faeth
SPLIT FILE to live without > (C)TABLES and without SPSS(C). > HTH > frans > > > > > On 08/01/2015 21:44, Matthias Faeth wrote: > > Yes I could use count, but the problem with open questions is that I > usually have a codeplan with up to 100 codes. That makes it

Re: multiple response set

2015-01-10 Thread Matthias Faeth
seems likes magic to me :-> Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-01-10 18:48 GMT+01:00 Frans Houweling : > Hi ftr, > sorry if this syntax is long but I did not have any suitable sav file at > hand. > > > *** Create fake data N=2

Re: "tags" in PSPP - can a variable have multiple values for the same case?

2015-01-17 Thread Matthias Faeth
I support Franks view. I'm a professional market researcher and we do always manual coding for open questions. Cheers Matthias Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-01-17 17:54 GMT+01:00 ftr : > With 360 cases consider the time that it a

Re: CTABLES Command

2015-02-17 Thread Matthias Faeth
So maybe we can motivate Ben a little. I would think about a kickstarter campaign. I'd put in 500USD for a full CTABLES to get that off the ground. I think that would also clear the way for using MRSETS in an easy way. @Ben: would money help to motivate you? Matthias Fäth 2015-02-16 22:42 GMT+0

Re: CTABLES Command

2015-02-17 Thread Matthias Faeth
across > variables, have the ability to subset subcategories of variables based on > their labels, and accept Labels for the tables. > > While this may be basic when compared to some more advanced uses of the > command, this shows the most typical use of it in survey reporting. >

Re: CTABLES Command

2015-02-20 Thread Matthias Faeth
I agree that the SPSS GUI for CTABLES is of not much use (at least in SPSS 17 the lastes that I used) . I for myself would be contend if PSPP would support the code of CTABLES (but not only TABLES as Frank oviously states). So no integration into PSPPire but only into PSPP would be fine for me.

Re: CTABLES Command

2015-02-24 Thread Matthias Faeth
So nobody else interested to sponsor a programmer who goes for TABLES or CTABLES funktion (tbd) in PSPP? Or else: Any programmer out there who is interested to do the job? Regards Matthias 2015-02-20 11:43 GMT+01:00 Matthias Faeth : > I agree that the SPSS GUI for CTABLES is of not much

Ctables Bug

2023-12-13 Thread Matthias Faeth via PSPP user discussion
Hi Ben found a little bug here: while mean honors the f3.1 format, colpct does not [image: grafik.png] Cheers Matthias

Re: Ctables Bug

2023-12-13 Thread Matthias Faeth via PSPP user discussion
ractional digit. Use F4.1 or a wider format instead. > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 1:07 AM Matthias Faeth wrote: > >> Hi Ben >> >> found a little bug here: while mean honors the f3.1 format, colpct does >> not >> >> [image: grafik.png] >> >> Cheers >> >> Matthias >> >>

Re: Ctables Bug

2023-12-14 Thread Matthias Faeth via PSPP user discussion
to show one integer digit, a decimal point, and >>> one fractional digit, but not enough for two integer digits, a decimal >>> point, and one fractional digit. Use F4.1 or a wider format instead. >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 1:07 AM Matthias Faeth wrote: >