Cecily, Please respond to the list so everyone can see the response (like the developers would would actually fix bugs).
What do you do after PSPP says "(Not responding)"? When a Windows program says that, it means that it's doing something internally and it may respond when it's finished. Although it can indicate a problem, PSPP also does this when operating normally when it was performing a lot of calculations. In the latter case, the output appears after a few minutes. Because you are analyzing a big dataset, it seems possible that PSPP is just slower than you expect (and not actually broken). The attached dataset comes with PSPP so you could open it either from Start > All Programs > PSPP > Examples, or from my email. It has 17 rows (i.e., it's quite small). Please run your analysis on this dataset; does PSPP say "Not Responding" when analyzing this dataset? If so, I'd say PSPP is broken. But if not, I'd say it's just slow to respond. -Alan On 9/23/2016 12:23 PM, Cecily Ray wrote: > Dear Alan, > Thank you for your early reply. > I had installed version 10.2 of PSPP. for 64 bit computers with Windows 7. > My dataset was downloaded from http://dhsprogram.com/ > (a Demographic and Health Survey for India) and its size is 429,852 Kb. > > I have been able to look at many of the variables to see their full > names appear > but when I ask the program to give me a frequency or something else, > the top > bar above the dataset says "(Not responding)". > > I am sorry I don't understand all the technical words you are using > ("gui" etc.) > but I have used SPSS for a number of years for my study and work so I > know > how to use it. However I never use any syntax apart from the program > itself. > > I hope this clarifies the problem I am facing. > > Thanks and regards, > Cecily Ray > > > > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Alan Mead <ame...@alanmead.org > <mailto:ame...@alanmead.org>> wrote: > > Do you recall what version of PSPP you installed? Do you recall if > it was the 32-bit or 64-bit version? I am using an older version, > pspp 0.10.1-g1082b8, and it works fine on my 64-bit windows 7. > > When you say that the program doesn't respond, you click on the > gui and a dialog opens but the statistics doesn't show up in the > output? Or what exactly do you mean by "does not respond"? > Compared to SPSS (which raises the output window when new output > appears) PSPP is relatively quiet (the output window should > "throb" but not raise itself). > > After opening a dataset, if you click File > New > Syntax do you > get a blank syntax window? And can you type: "freq / x." (without > the quotes)? And If you then change "x" to be one of your > variables and select Run > All does output appear? > > -Alan > > > > On 9/23/2016 6:44 AM, Cecily Ray wrote: >> Dear Programmers, >> >> Yesterday I installed PPSP for Windows (I have version 7) on my >> Toshiba Satellite C655 laptop (64 bit). >> The dataset opens nicely but the program does not respond >> whenever I try any performing any operation >> like frequencies of a variable. >> >> If you can help me know what to do at the earliest, I would be >> most grateful. >> >> Thanking you, >> Cecily Ray >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pspp-users mailing list >> Pspp-users@gnu.org <mailto:Pspp-users@gnu.org> >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users >> <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users> > > -- > > Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. > President, Talent Algorithms Inc. > > science + technology = better workers > > +815.588.3846 (Office) > +267.334.4143 (Mobile) > > http://www.alanmead.org > > I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... > functions on fire in a copy of Orion. > I watched C-Sharp glitter in the dark near a programmable gate. > All those moments will be lost in time, like Ruby... on... Rails... Time > for Pi. > > --"The Register" user Alister, applying the famous > "Blade Runner" speech to software development > -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers +815.588.3846 (Office) +267.334.4143 (Mobile) http://www.alanmead.org I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... functions on fire in a copy of Orion. I watched C-Sharp glitter in the dark near a programmable gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like Ruby... on... Rails... Time for Pi. --"The Register" user Alister, applying the famous "Blade Runner" speech to software development
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