On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 18:40 +0000, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:18:18AM -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > I have been using pspp from the gui version psppire. I am running > version 0.6.1 under Fedora 11. (The package is pspp-0.6.1-3.fc11.i586.) > But I am unclear about some things. > > 1> Is it possible to delete variables? How about entries? > > Yes and yes. Right click on the row/column concerned and choose "Clear" > from the popup menu. Alternatively select the row/column and from the Edit > menu choose the Clear item.
Thanks for responding. > > 2> I've been running descriptive statistics for frequencies and > crosstabs. But I have to copy what is in the output window each time > and paste it into a text file using gedit. Is there some way using > psppire to put the output in a file? > > The output is by default put into a file called "psppire.txt". Okay. I found it in my home directory. But I was working in another directory. Is there some way to specify a working directory? > > > Is there some way to control the > format of the output? It often divides a cross tabulation table into > separate sub-tables, as might be required to continue on the next page, > and I then have to merge by deleting extra lines in gedit. > > Not from the GUI. It's possible from the command line interface. See the > section of the manual entitled "Output devices". > > Is there some way to show the details of how a recoded variable was > recoded? > > I'm not sure that I understand this question. There is a record of all > commands > run in pspp.jnl if that helps. Ah! in my home directory again. It should be helpful in learning how to use the command line version. > > 3> Supposedly pspp can produce graphs of various kinds, e.g., > histograms. Is this only possible by running pspp in a terminal window > at the command line? > > Well you can also do it by running the commands in the GUI's syntax window. I suppose it is moot, but I can't find a `syntax window'. I can't find any reference anywhere to any graphical procedure, e.g. histogram, in psppire. > However the problem is, that version 0.6.x doesn't have any way to actually > display the graphs. This is currently being addressed - if you're prepared > to build the "output" branch from the git repository, then you can see what > progress has been made so far. > > 4> I have split the data on the values of a certain variable and then > run crosstabs on different pairs of variables. Some of these variables > are recodings into new variables of other variables. (The split is done > on the basis of one of these recoded variables.) There appears to be > some sort of bug. Namely, in some cases, perhaps only in cases of > recoded variables, the reported number of missing values is wrong in one > of the two sets produced by the split. In the errant set, the number > reported is the total number of missing values rather than just the > number for that set. As far as I can tell the cross tabulations are > right for the valid data. > > I've reported this to the pgpp-bugs mailing list, but haven't gotten a > detailed response yet. I presume it is possible I did something wrong. > e.g., in creating the recoded variables. Can anyone suggest anything > which I might have done wrong? > > Probably nothing. The crosstabs command was completely rewritten in version > 0.7.x so hopefully this problem won't arise there. I did compile a 0.7.x version from source but psppire crashed whenever I tried to do anything with it. Can you point me at some version which works? > > 5> Is there some tutorial which goes through various examples, > particularly using psppire? I've been studying the manual, but it > isn't a whole lot of help in using the pspire. > > Unfortunately not. Pspp started as a free replacement for Spss. However > it's starting to attract interest from people who have never used Spss, so > it maybe time to write such a tutorial. Any volunteers? Fortunately, my wife once used SPSS extensively, so perhaps between us we can figure out how to use the command line version. They didn't have a GUI version in her days. > > J' > _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
