Re: Re: pspp on a live CD

2009-02-07 Thread Michel Boaventura
2009/2/7 unknown-1 : > I would change the instructions a bit and tell users they should burn the > file as an iso image and have a look at there cd burning software how to do > this. > Users could misinterpret the current instructions and just burn the file as > file on the cd. That won't work offc

Re: newbie francesco (calabria - IT)

2009-02-20 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Francesco, Do you download the pspp from what site? Theres two versions, and it will help us to know what version do you have. Michel 2009/2/20 f_mu...@virgilio.it : > Hi, i'm francesco from calabria, south Italy. I've just installed pspp > and the upgrade to the 0.6.1-2 version (on window

Re: Viewer tables into Excel?

2009-02-20 Thread Michel Boaventura
If save the frequency output on a text file and import it on openoffice, it can recognize the format, and you can tell it what character is delimiter, break line, etc.. so you can import it this way to. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org htt

Re: Help needed for problem with PSSP related to outputs

2009-02-24 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Cemal, seems like you are a windows user and had installed the cygwin version of pspp. This bug has already been reported and so far has no solution. You can download the myngw version who doesn´t have this issue from http://www.cecaps.ufmg.br/pspp/ . Don´t forget to uninstall the older vers

Re: Output files [pspp-1.png etc.] - where exactly are they?

2009-03-01 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Martin, 2009/3/1 Martin (London) : > > I'm a newbie using PSPP in a Windows Vista environment and I am trying to > understand what graphing capabilities PSPP has and exactly how (in very > simple language) to use them. My questions are... Good to know that you are using pspp :D > 1.) From

Re: PSPP error message when trying reading a PSPP file or saving it

2009-03-08 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Jose, I'm sending this mail also to pspp-u...@gnu.org. This list is intend to help users with problems like yours. Could you send the sav file to us? Thank you, Michel 2009/3/8 Jose Katzenstein : > Hi Michael, > > I'm a new user of the PSPP program (windows version: psppire.exe 0.6.1) and

Re: Building PSPP from source problem

2009-03-11 Thread Michel Boaventura
Did you have the "dev" gtk and libglade packages? > configure: error: The following required prerequisites are not installed. > You must install them before PSPP can be built: >        gtk+ 2.0 v2.12 or later (or use --without-gui) >        libglade 2.0 v2.6.0 or later (or use --without-gui) ___

Re: Building PSPP from source problem

2009-03-11 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hum, i guess gtk2 = gtk2+. Can you please send your config.log file? Maybe it shows us where the problem is. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Building PSPP from source problem

2009-03-11 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Eric, The PKG_CONFIG_PATH only tells system where the pkg-config is. I guess that this is not the problem. You should try to use the var PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR instead. It will tell the system where pkg-config will find the .pc files. In your case,I guess it should be /usr/lib/pkgconfig, so you s

Re: Building PSPP from source problem

2009-03-11 Thread Michel Boaventura
> The output that you send to us from configure don't really help. > There's more info in other places, who will tell us exactly why > configure can't find gtk. Sorry, only now I see that you had send config.log to us ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-u

New pspp docs

2009-03-12 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, I've created a blog with infos about PSPP. First I'm showing how to cross-compile it and all of its dependencies. Later I wish to start posting some tips and tutorials, and then put it all together and make a new easy to use manual. For now it's only in portuguese, but the codes and command

Re: New pspp docs

2009-03-12 Thread Michel Boaventura
> Do you know what I could do to obtain a PSPP for a Mac, I need a compilation > in a .DMG file. Hello Carlos, As far as I know, compile to mac is more like to compile to linux. I really don't have a Mac to make a release. In meanwhile, you can install wine on your mac, and then run the pspp from

Re: saving and reading files

2009-03-18 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Krystal, Are you using Windows or Linux? Which version of pspp are you using? As fas as I know, the only problem saving files is that you can't use non-english chars (at least on windows) and you can't save an already open file(also on windows). Michel __

Re: saving and reading files

2009-03-18 Thread Michel Boaventura
Well, the user who write this message does not send to us it file, so I really don't know what bug was that. The issue about "file exists" only happens on windows, because it don't let pspp write on a opened file. So you have to use the "save as..." option, and save the file with other name.

Pspp for windows

2009-03-23 Thread Michel Boaventura
I've just put a new windows version of pspp on the cecaps page (http://www.cecaps.ufmg.br/pspp). This is the last master branch of pspp, and has some bug fixes and a lot of new work. There is some known bugs, on which John is working but this version is quite usable. I hope you enjoy :) Michel

Re: Install PSPP in Mac OS X

2009-03-25 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Henrique, You can use this tutorial: http://www.evolutionbeach.org/2008/10/stats-for-students-pspp.html Michel Boaventura ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: PSPPire problems

2009-03-25 Thread Michel Boaventura
>     1. Problem with unicode support. >     I found some problems when trying to open SAV data file which contains >     data in unicode (slovenian characters čšž/ČŠŽ) and/or variable names in >     unicode. Instead of slovenian characters I get just queston marks >     "?". > > This should work,

Re: PSPPire problems

2009-03-25 Thread Michel Boaventura
> That's not generally true.  It would be more accurate to say: > >  Spss, when running on windows, generates data files using the >  encoding of the current user's locale. But as far as I know, only SPSS 16 runs on Linux. So I suppose that if you have a .sav file, probably it was made on Windows

Re: PSPPire problems

2009-03-25 Thread Michel Boaventura
And when PSPP creates a .sav file, it uses what encoding? It puts the encoding version inside the file? Because windows don't use unicode, and if I create a .sav using pspp on my linux(with unicode), it will never works on windows. ___ Pspp-users mailin

Re: PSPP on Vista

2009-03-30 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Matej, I don't know about the cygwin version, but the mingw one only works on vista 32 bits. Seems like this problem only affects windows vista 64 I will try to find some computer with the 64 bits version and see what is going on. It's a strange problem, since vista 64 can emule 32 bits an

Re: Empty PNG files

2009-04-01 Thread Michel Boaventura
> However, the PNG file that is produced from this command is empty. 0 bytes. Could you please try to do this using the Mingw version? I don't know if this is an cygwin issue. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

Resp.: Empty PNG files

2009-04-01 Thread Michel Boaventura
Strange. Please try this: www.cecaps.ufmg.br/pspp and click on download. 2009/4/1, Jonathan Fowler : > The link to the MinGW version download times out. I can't get to it. > > -Original Message- > From: Michel Boaventura [mailto:michel.boavent...@gmail.com] > Sent:

Re: Resp.: Empty PNG files

2009-04-01 Thread Michel Boaventura
please try this link: www.cecaps.ufmg.br/pspp/files/pspp.tar.bz2 2009/4/1 Jonathan Fowler : > That's the link that times out. I think it may be a specific block by my > district, as the link contains "setup" and "exe" in the path. > > -Original M

Re: Python and SPSS

2009-04-05 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, You can use Perl with PSPP, but there is no python support yet. Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 6

2009-04-06 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, I guess this is the bug ##25795. http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=25795 Ben already made a fix for it to gnulib, but I need to test it. I've just formated my old linux and I couldn't try it yet :( ___ Pspp-users mailing lis

Re: SPSS Viewer Output File Formats

2009-04-06 Thread Michel Boaventura
> "The University will ensure that it imposes no requirement or > expectation on students in any discipline that would require them > necessarily to make use of proprietary software when a cost is > involved, where there are comparable Open Source packages available" This is fantastic! Here on

Re: PSPP output files

2009-04-08 Thread Michel Boaventura
2009/4/8 jwship...@jwshipley.karoo.co.uk : > When using PSPP with Windows, where does an Output file go to? Usually on the folder from where do you run it. If you start PSPP from the desktop shortcut, it will appears on the desktop. But this is for PSPPire. I guess PSPP will output on the current

Re: PSPP output files

2009-04-09 Thread Michel Boaventura
> Thank you for your reply.  No joy, I am afraid.  When I did a frequency > distribution on some dummy data, to force an output, I added > > PRINT >     OUTFILE = WhatevernameIchose >     TABLE. > > to the pasted syntax.  The program immediately shut down. I will try this. > Do I infer from what

Re: using results of pspp, error report

2009-04-19 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Gene, About the psppire.txt, on windows you will find it where you run pspp. If you run it from the desktop shortcut, it will appear on desktop. This isn't the best solution, but works nice. Best regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp

Re: Simple question about emacs

2009-04-27 Thread Michel Boaventura
> A comment that begins with * extends until the end of the > command.  Usually, a command ends with '.' at the end of a line. > So, if you put a '.' at the end of your comment, that fixes the > coloring. This really works. > I could not reproduce this.  For me, the presence of non-ASCII > charac

Re: Simple question about emacs

2009-04-27 Thread Michel Boaventura
Another strange issue, is if I create a file with only this: *comment 1. *comment 2. *comment 3. The line 1 and 3 appears yellow, and line 2 red. If I go to line 2 and change anything on it, it becomes yellow, and line 3 becomes red. If I change anything on line 3, all of my lines becomes yellow.

Re: Simple question about emacs

2009-04-27 Thread Michel Boaventura
I'm sending an screen-shot of what happens on my Emacs. <>___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Output tables

2009-06-16 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, I think that it is not possible, because the output system has some problems with non-ascii chars. Maybe you can make a shell script who changes it on the psppire.txt file. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mai

Re: GNU PSPP 0.6.2-pre6 now available

2009-09-09 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, This is great! I'm changing my pc, so I can't test it on mingw yet, but as soon as I can, I will! Could you please send the pot file to Translation Project? Also, will be great if you send the pot file from the master branch. Thank you, Michel

Re: GNU PSPP 0.6.2-pre6 now available

2009-09-10 Thread Michel Boaventura
I don't know whether anyone has made test builds of PSPP 0.7.x for Windows available. If anyone has, please speak up. (I think that perhaps we should add pointers to 0.7.x test builds from the PSPP webpage, since there seems to be a lot of interest in the next version.) This is fixed on the

Re: GNU PSPP 0.6.2-pre6 now available

2009-09-16 Thread Michel Boaventura
Oh, that's great. I updated the links from http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html. I even linked to all the language-specific versions you have of the download page, which is impressive. Thank you! I only write on english and portuguese. All the other language versions came from good pspp

Re: Newbie: Mac 10.4.11 & Syntax

2009-09-16 Thread Michel Boaventura
There is a tutorial in the 0.7.x development version of PSPP. I don't anyone has put it on the web in a nicely formatted version, but you can kind of read it here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/tree/doc/tutorial.texi I just put it on my server. You can download it at http://www.cecap

Re: My two cents

2009-11-17 Thread Michel Boaventura
It is great Matej. Very nice job! If you need, I can host an wiki on the same server that holds the blog. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Translation to pt_PT

2010-02-22 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, A user from Portugal send me a email telling that on a windows with pt_PT as default language, pspp uses english as language, since my translate is to pt_BR. But boh pt_PT and pt_BR are very similar, I guess like en_US and en_GB. So, do you think that is a good idea to copy my translation

Re: PSPP on MSWindows Campus computers

2010-02-26 Thread Michel Boaventura
Matej, Did you installed the SP4 on windows 2k and all other updates? ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Tutorial

2010-03-15 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, I'm finishing a tutorial about pspp. It is written in portuguese, but I plan to translate it, when I have some time. The focus is on newbie users, which never uses neither pspp or spss. It starts from the very basics, like create variables, types of variables, inserting cases, etc... and fi

help with syntax

2010-05-16 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, I'got a base on PSPP which has only three columns: id, gender and height. I need to, for each male, to find the female who has the closest height of this male. On a pseudocode, it would be very easy (it is not optimized at all): for (i=0;iHow do I do it on PSPP? I've searched on th

Re: PSPP version 7 for MAC

2010-05-27 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, To build a mac version you need to have a mac. AFAIK, there is no way to crosscompile to MACOS. So we need to find someone with a mac and willing to help. A *very* ugly and temporary solution would be to use wine and run a windows version on mac. But this is wrong in so many ways :) Mi

Re: difficulty converting spreadsheet convertion

2010-06-14 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Tom, Could you please send the delimited file that you've created? I think would be easier to the list to help you out with this. Regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Compare two data files

2010-07-18 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Michelle, Would you like to compare the variables or the cases on the files? If the variables, it matters if they have the same name but diverge on type, length, etc? Regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists

Re: Opening 2 data Files in PSPP

2010-07-20 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello,You can use the MATCH-FILES command.Take a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#MATCH-FILESMichel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Querying Data From Oracle Database

2010-08-01 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello,There is no way yet to query directly from oracle. So far PSPP only works with postgresql. I'm working on a modulewhich will make pspp able to connect to any base using ODBC, but so fair I didn't make much progress.Just for your information, PSPP isn't a shareware. It is an open source softwa

Re: Querying Data From Oracle Database

2010-08-02 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, Seems like this windows version wasn't compiled with postgres support. I assume that you are using the latest version, which was made by Harry. So you may ask him to add this feature on next version. Regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing l

Re: Tutorial

2010-08-08 Thread Michel Boaventura
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, It will be great to add this tutorial, but it is a work of many undergraduate students on my university. Some of them just add a few lines, others much more than that. When I put it online, all the students agreed wit this, but I don't know how

Re: help with syntax

2010-08-08 Thread Michel Boaventura
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for the reply Ben. I've solve this issue making a script on R, and it works pretty well :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMX5QnA

Re: PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread Michel Boaventura
About the docs, there is a very introdutory tutorial, but in Portuguese only. So far I didn't have the time to translate it: wiki.michelboaventura.com ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Problem in MSWindows 0.7.6-g983f4e-blp-build20101030

2010-11-12 Thread Michel Boaventura
It would be nice to run psppire within a debugger, for example OllyDbg: http://www.ollydbg.de/ It will tell what makes psppire to crash. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Export Output data to Excel

2010-12-10 Thread Michel Boaventura
You can export it to ods (openoffice calc). Excel 2007 and 2010 can read ods directly. Regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: how to save/import value labels

2010-12-10 Thread Michel Boaventura
You can use a syntax to do this. For example: VALUE LABELS /gender 1 'Male' 2 'Female' 3 'NA'. You can learn more about this command on http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/VALUE-LABELS.html ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org

Re: Non-ASCII characters?

2010-12-23 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, Windows don't like UTF-8. I *think* you need to convert your csv to a utf-8 format. Openoffice can do it, and also notepad++ and vim. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Data from a odbc connection

2011-02-04 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, Sorry about the delay. Sadly I didn't move on on the project. I found it a little hard for me =/ ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: simple linear regression error

2011-03-23 Thread Michel Boaventura
Harry made a windows version on 2011-03-13. It probably has this fix. Please download it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/2011-03-13/ ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: opening datafiles directly with psppire

2011-03-31 Thread Michel Boaventura
Ubuntu main repository has only the 0.6.2 version. You can use gandalf's launchpad, which has the 0.7.5 version. The address is: https://launchpad.net/~gandalf/+archive/pspp Regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.g

Re: Import / Export Functions and other features missing for academic and office use in urban planning

2011-05-09 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Roman, I'm working on a xls reader to PSPP. So far it works, but with limitated functionalities. O hope it will be ready before pspp 0.8.0. Meanwhile, you can export to csv (which most xls dbf and odt softwares can do) and then import it on pspp. Regards, Michel ___

Re: Problems importing data from Excel

2011-05-17 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Melody, To open the text file on pspp (you must be exported it as a csv), you first need to open pspp. I assume you are using windows, so you should find it on Start -> Program Files -> PSPP -> PSPPIRE. But, if during the install you choose to not create shortcuts,you will have to find it on

Re: MINGW PSPP Select Cases option not working

2011-05-20 Thread Michel Boaventura
hello, unfortunable my blog is outdated. you can download the lastest version from harry's account on sourceforge. google for pspp4windows. regards, michel Em 20/05/2011 19:13, "Richard Rabinowitz" escreveu: > After opening the MINGW based PSPP Version 0.7.5 -g70514b, the latest > version for

Re: select cases based on multiple attributes

2011-07-05 Thread Michel Boaventura
The John's syntax will actually delete the unselected cases. If you want to just ignore the unselecteds you may use the FILTER syntax: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/FILTER.html ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lis

Re: Upload data from Excel into PSPP while coding already exists

2011-07-06 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello Elle, I'm working on this and it will probably be done to pspp 0.8.0. Until then you can export to csv on excel and then import the data into pspp. Regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: When would a new Ubuntu PSPP deb file become avaiable?

2011-08-27 Thread Michel Boaventura
The problem here is that only "stable" softwares are packed on debian/ubuntu. So you will not see the newest versions there because it is marked as unstable. I think your best shot would be enabling gandalf ppa. Even if there is not support to 11.04 or 11.10 you can just add "deb http://ppa.launch

Re: [rodolkis.marti...@etecsa.cu: Saber]

2011-09-09 Thread Michel Boaventura
Você está usando Windows ou Linux? Se o primeiro, basta seu idioma ser espanhol no sistema. No Linux basta fazer como John explicou. Abraços, Michel Em 09/09/2011 14:00, "Jason Stover" escreveu: > > Parece como algo para los usarios espanolas. > > - Forwarded message from Rodolkis Mart??nez

Re: PSPP for Windows on Citrix?

2011-12-06 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, I think there is nothing that would stop the pspp's windows binary package to run on cytrix. As far as I know, a Cytrix server is just a regular windows machine with some extra software layers. Regards, Michel ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-us

Re: pspp crashing-Windows version psppire.exe 0.7.8-g997322

2012-03-13 Thread Michel Boaventura
Jill, What are the PSPP's and windows' version you are using? ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: Crosstabs

2012-03-22 Thread Michel Boaventura
Hello, If I understood your question, what you want is just a frequency, not a crosstab. Try this: FREQUENCIES /VARIABLES=Year /FORMAT=AVALUE TABLE. ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-user