Re: Open Source Statistical Packages?
Jens Scheidtmann wrote: John Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My normal occupation as a process engineer requires much DOE and SPC work. SAS and others cost tens of thousands of dollars and are not particularly user friendly. Any suggestions for open source? If not, how would I go about getting some people on a band wagon? I'm not a great programmer, but I'd be willing to help. (I'm practicing, but coding in C is not a one night learning experience :)). Look at www.r-project.org and there is a pspp project (spss) somewhere out there. Have a look at sal.kachinatech.com HTH, Jens Hi- Don't even waste your time with pspp. It has been stopped a long time ago, and it was pretty much alpha anyways. R is a very powerfull statistics package. You will be able to import your data from SAS, nothing will be lost. R is *the* prefered statistical software by staticians doing research.R implements the S language. Therefore, it is a language and environment for statistical computing. This, of course, implies a learning curve, because implies learning to program in R. This, however, gives you more flexibility and power. I used SPSS my self, but I decided that R had everything I needed, so I gave up on SPSS altogether, and I don't regret it.I'm trying to evangelize a few people about R. I can also interact with people using other software packages, so their choice doesn't affect me. R has very powerful graphics capabilities, *way* better than anything I've used (I haven't used SAS, though). R is available as a Debian package, but you will have to edit your sources files (instructions on the URL Jens gave you). Updating R is, of course, no sweat in a Debian system. The R software is developped by a very serious team of programmers, mostly staticians. One of the main developers holds a Chair of Statistics in Oxford. Don't forget to get the documentation and sign up to the R mailing list, where you can ask questions (after you read the documentation, :-) ) Best reagards Henry
Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?
Hello- I'm sorry if I sound hysterical, but I have reasons for concern. In fact, I'm truly desperate: it has been over a three months that I try to tackle this problem whenever I have some time. I was never able to use TeX on my potato, because the package somehow got broken. And I mean *badly* broken. In dselect, it appear as *RI, which means that I should reinstall it. But **nothing works** Purging tetex-bin (and all it's dependencies, of course) results in nothing... apt-get remove tetex-bin - tells me that the package is in a very inconsistent state and you should consider reinstalling it before removing. But... apt-get install reinstall tetex-bin - no good and apt-get -f install tetex-bin tetex-doc tetex-lib tetex-base abd then apt-get -f install You get the same error, below siddhi:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: r-gnome 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 19 not upgraded. 15 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2656kB of archives. After unpacking 225kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 115823 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace tetex-bin 1.0.6-7 (using .../tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ... open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado [file or directory not found] dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado [file or directory not found] dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado [file or directory not found] dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Another approach... siddhi:~# apt-get --reinstall install tetex-bin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 25 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2656kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 123935 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace tetex-bin 1.0.6-7 (using .../tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ... open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have *no* /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history/ !! So, why the hell it keeps looking for it?! *Whatever I do*, it keeps giving me this error message!!! I've even tried moving the post-removal script in /var/lib/dpkg/info (tetex-bin.postrm), but to no avail. I have no idea...I'm desperate, I've tried everything I know. Even dpkg with the force option... With all the time and effort I put in solving this problem, I'm sttil at ground zero with this package. I am seriously considering the possibility that: 1) There is a bug in the tetex-bin package 2) There is a bug in apt-get (!) Why am I considering apt-get? Because if I try to install *anything*, apt-get simply goes crazy with stupid messages. For instance, when I apt-get install grep-dctrl: The following NEW packages will be installed: grep-dctrl 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded. 15 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2683kB of archives. After unpacking 127kB will be used. Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin. (Reading database ... 115771 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace tetex-bin 1.0.6-7 (using .../tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ... open /var/lib/xaw-wrappers/update-wrappers-history: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned
Re: dselect: Package list totally Wrong
Gerd Wilhelm wrote: Hi Debianiens, the third time i have got the following Problem: I tried to install a Package vie dselect, but found out that the Dependencies where not met. One or to wrong keystrokes and dselect wants to _deinstall_ 142 Packages. Does anyone know a way I can tell dselect to adapt the its List to the true state of my system? The Key R for Go back to the state before this List does not help, because i had endet dselect. Thank You for your Help Gerd Hi Gerd- Have you been installing a great many tarballs in your system? I ask this because unless you alien -d x.tgz the packaging system will not recognize the stuff you just installed. HTH. Henry
