Dear PSPP users/developers, as SPSS is much too expensive for any normal use and they have abandoned any campus licensing (probably they don't want new customers) we are evaluating alternatives.
Last semester a student of mine did an evaluation of PSPP (s. http://openplanningtools.org/Statistik%20mit%20PSPP - in German - linking this page is welcome if you find it of interest). The main problem of PSPP in our use is the limited import and export capabilities. Rather than needing sav or por file formats which not of any interest when not using spss we would need for things like dbf, xls and maybe odt. Aren't there some GPLed libraries somewhere which could be easily integrated? Is anybody having the same problems? The second most annoying thing was PSPP's behavior to not warn you when you open another file when there is an unsaved dataset. This will lead to mistakes... Having better import/export possibilities and a warning when opening another dataset if the current one is modified would make pspp equal to better for our use. So pspp is already a great product - there is only a few details missing. Best regards roman _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
