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Re: RECODE, CHISQ issues, and other feedback
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: RECODE, CHISQ issues, and other feedback |
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Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:54:22 -0600 |
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address@hidden writes:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:29:38PM -0600, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> address@hidden writes:
>> > I looked at the source code to figure out why THRU wasn't
>> > working (being unimplemented), so I'm already in the code.
>>
>> THRU should work. It did in my tests, even before the bug
>> fixes. Can you show me an example that doesn't work, but should?
>
> I figured out the problem was that I hadn't recoded a string into
> NUMERIC. It's working fine when I do that. The error message didn't
> make it obvious. It just said there was a syntax error.
You're right, that error message is poor. I've checked in an
improvement.
>> > I might work on THRU, CONVERT, and single-factor chi-square is
>> > broken, even though passing multiple factors into it seems to
>> > work. CROSSTABS /CELLS=... doesn't do what I expect, either.
>>
>> CROSSTABS kind of sucks in some ways, yes, but I don't think I
>> know about this particular problem. Can you give more details?
>
> Yes, I've made an example pspp file. I'll file a concise bug in the
> morning, but if you want an early look at what I'm working on, you can
> see this, which I update as I get and incorporate feedback and updates:
I see the bug report now, thanks for filing it.
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