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On Saturday, November 05, 2011 08:02:43 PM Coleen Starwalt wrote: > Hey thanks, John, for responding. I found this website: > http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/PSPP.shtml. > says it was update september 5. I don't have Harry's website, but maybe > you could send me the link if it would be worth my while (as in an even > more recent update.) > > As for PSPP, the version I have, it ate my data! And unfortunately, I > didn't have it backed up! Sigh. And how many times do I tell my students > to do so... At least I only lost one run of statistics. I'll have the > student do it by hand. That'll teach him just how hard it is!! > > Thanks. > > Coleen > > On 11/5/2011 7:39 PM, John Darrington wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 03:33:09PM +0100, Coleen Starwalt wrote: > >> I am a simple linguist with a humble PhD in linguistics - no computer > >> programmer here, just a user of Windows and Windows-based programs. I > >> was happily using SPSS for my statistical needs until I discovered to > >> my > >> horror that to renew my license (what? Buying software isn't really > >> buying it?) would cost me thousands of dollars. Absurd. > > > > I quite agree. That's why PSPP is licenced under GPLv3, which has > > clause > > forbidding anyone from doing the same with PSPP. You might be > > interested > > to read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/opposing-drm.html > > > >> But we found > >> PSPP and that it does the basic functions that I needed SPSS for. We > >> found the windows based version of it - I'm not a Linux user and now > >> is > >> not the time to learn - and I was happily working on a batch of data > >> until I discovered I could not select any cases. But selecting data, > >> select cases doesn't bring up a dialogue box. Do you have a patch, fix > >> or perhaps an updated version or know of one where this has been > >> fixed? > >> I downloaded this version: psppire.exe 0.7.5-g70514b. > > > > This version is about 18 months old. > > > > There were some bugs reported in the select cases function some time ago > > I think they have been fixed now although there was some question about > > whether it behaved exactly as SPSS does. > > > > However I'm surprised that you say it doesn't bring up any dialog box at > > all. As I recall the problem was mainly in the transformation. > > > > Anyway perhaps you could download a recent 0.7.8 (I think Harry said > > he's got a version about 2 weeks old on his site) and try that. If > > that doesn't work properly, then please feel free to submit a bug > > report and we'll see what we can do about it. > > > > > > J' > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
