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On 8/23/2013 8:39 PM, Mark Levine
wrote:
Hi folks,
Newbie to PSPP, used SPSS decades ago. What a great idea!! I am seriously impressed by what this team has put together. I am currently trying to use PSPP 0.8.0 on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.8.4.
Basic problem: I don't know how to tell PSPP what to expect in terms of NVAR and NCASE. I get one case and a load of variables.
I want to analyze a small survey, roughly vars = 100, N = 150, collected on Survey Monkey. I want to do some basic descriptive, correlational, and multivariate stuff, etc. I have eliminated the open-ends (because some responses were very long and I was getting an error message from PSPP) and deleted the row of the column labels.
OK, I have a clean dataset, I saved it as a cvs file in Excel as John Darrington suggested and tried to open it. Unfortunately (and reasonably) PSPP saw the data as one respondent with a load of vars. It didn't know how many variables to fill in and then to go on to the next case. I can't find a way to tell PSPP how many vars, how many rows to expect. Just can't get from cvs file into PSPP.
How do I set up PSPP to accept a cvs file? Am I missing something?
Can the community guide me a bit or point me to a resource or a previous thread? I've searched and found the one with John's suggestion and that's about it.
Here's where I am:
Your thoughts????? If there is any further info needed, please advise.ALSO: Does a guide to the GUI version exist?
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