We advertise that pspp "interoperates with a variety of programs such as (Gnumeric) and OpenOffice.org". I'm having a bit of difficulty getting this to happen. What I'd like to do is get pspp to read data files output from simple python modules. Thus far, I've been trying to use psppire's "import delimited text data" function. Have saved small test files variously as .txt, .csv, or as a .csv with python-added commas between values. In all cases the data look fine in the home program, and also look fine in psppire's import function right up to the last step "ok", whereupon they produce multiple errors of the type: "dataSet.csv:1: data file warning: (columns 1-0, F field) Number followed by garbage." Only when each data value is separated from the next by a comma (and no spaces or carriage returns) do I escape these errors, but then each datum heads its own variable column in psppire. Meanwhile, same file saved as .ods (open document format spreadsheet) or as a Gnumeric spreadsheet import to psppire as what I would term heiroglyphics, probably pspp valiantly trying to cope with XML. I see the GET DATA command in the pspp syntax has a gnumeric import option, but there doesn't seem to be a similar openOffice option. Perhaps the way to tackle this is to use a pspp syntax window with "BEGIN DATA" and "DATA LIST" or "GET DATA"? (on some sort of .csv or .txt file?) Does pspp require each imported datum to be exactly the same length (i.e. same precision)? A few suggestions to set me on the right track would be helpful as I've run out of ideas. Small sample file attached in case that helps.
-2.283299080490 -1.433253709580 0.799817852956 0.255849914082 1.101804297390 0.077398610296 0.041571498593 -1.025534873140 -0.738748219309 -0.271639091163 -1.481500311030 0.115492084553 0.880275080400 0.102499082712 1.672766757970 1.350374691930 0.546701377359 0.600740940308 0.432826586026 2.303603918840
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