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Subject: Re: what essential GUI pieces are left? - msg#00060List: statistics.pspp.devel> I was just using pspp to check some students' data and thought of > something that would be very useful and not (I think) too difficult: > an easy way to save data as a delimited text file, through the > gui. Not having this has turned into a serious frustration. That would be pretty easy, yes. I can't find command syntax to do this. Are you aware of any? Perhaps it should be a new command, or it could be GUI-only, without any corresponding syntax (though this would be useful through syntax also). -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org Thread at a glance:
Previous Message by Date: click to view message previewRe: what essential GUI pieces are left?I was just using pspp to check some students' data and thought of something that would be very useful and not (I think) too difficult: an easy way to save data as a delimited text file, through the gui. Not having this has turned into a serious frustration. -Jason Next Message by Date: click to view message previewRe: what essential GUI pieces are left?On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:40:45PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Jason Stover <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I was just using pspp to check some students' data and thought of > > something that would be very useful and not (I think) too difficult: > > an easy way to save data as a delimited text file, through the > > gui. Not having this has turned into a serious frustration. >... > I can't find command syntax to do this. Are you aware of any? > Perhaps it should be a new command, or it could be GUI-only, > without any corresponding syntax (though this would be useful > through syntax also). No, and that's what was so frustrating. I was struggling with the PRINT, LIST and WRITE commands to get them to do what I needed, but there wasn't any easy way that only took a glance at the manual. The behavior of these commands seems to violate the law of least astonishment, too. Not that we can do anything about that since it's the other program's weird behavior that we have to mimic. -Jason Previous Message by Thread: click to view message previewRe: what essential GUI pieces are left?I was just using pspp to check some students' data and thought of something that would be very useful and not (I think) too difficult: an easy way to save data as a delimited text file, through the gui. Not having this has turned into a serious frustration. -Jason Next Message by Thread: click to view message previewRe: what essential GUI pieces are left?On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:40:45PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Jason Stover <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I was just using pspp to check some students' data and thought of > > something that would be very useful and not (I think) too difficult: > > an easy way to save data as a delimited text file, through the > > gui. Not having this has turned into a serious frustration. >... > I can't find command syntax to do this. Are you aware of any? > Perhaps it should be a new command, or it could be GUI-only, > without any corresponding syntax (though this would be useful > through syntax also). No, and that's what was so frustrating. I was struggling with the PRINT, LIST and WRITE commands to get them to do what I needed, but there wasn't any easy way that only took a glance at the manual. The behavior of these commands seems to violate the law of least astonishment, too. Not that we can do anything about that since it's the other program's weird behavior that we have to mimic. -Jason Loading Comments...
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