On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:28:30AM +0100, Matthias Faeth wrote: > Thanks for the comprehensive explanation why CTABLES depend on the ability > to read SPV files. Do I understand correctly that this dependency comes > only from the pivot-function in the SPV file - meaning that you doubleclick > on a table to change pages? > > I mean by that the following: The syntax of CTABLES is: > "CTABLES downvariable BY acrossvariable BY pagevariable" > Pages are shown in the SPV file only by doubleclicking and choosing another > page. > > The function is a pain anyway because it is uncomfortable and also (at > least for me) not working under all circumstances. So I can confirm Alans > arguments on this although I have no idea why rendering a new page is not > always working. > > To come back to the topic of implementing CTABLES: > 1. Can we avoid the dependency on understanding SPV if we strip the CTABLES > command of the page function? So to support only 2 dimensions in the > output? This is probably what most users need.
Pivot tables are a lot more than just pages, and CTABLES is pretty tied up with the pivot functionality. > 2. Or do you think that is not worth to do, because once the SPV issue is > solved the whole CTABLES output would have to be reprogrammed? Or are there > other functions of the CTABLES command (like plots or graphs) that depend > on the SPV issue, too? This may be an issue, too, although I doubt that plots or graphs would be in a first draft of the CTABLES functionality. > 3. As I do not have any knowledge about TABLES: does TABLES have the same > dependencies on pivot and SPV? Would it be a solution to come back to the > proposal of ftr and Frans to opt for TABLES instead of CTABLES? I haven't studied TABLES in the way I have CTABLES. I suspect that users are more interested in the latter, because it's come up again and again over the last few years, whereas the former has hardly been mentioned. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
