Re: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 87, Issue 19

[Mark Levine]

I just tried Chris' suggestion below and it works like a charm. Going through 
Libre and resaving the file did something magical to the cvs file.

I'd like to thank the other members of the community for their suggestions. For 
some reason in my case, I was only able to get the data passed successfully 
using Chris' approach, but I am sure the other approaches work. I just couldn't 
make it happen.

Thanks to y'all!!

Mark 
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:06:54 +0100
From: CHRIS WARNER <address@hidden>
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Subject: Transferring a cvs file to PSPP
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Dear Mark
I too, am a newbie to PSPP but love it.I run it on MacBook Pro and have
had the same problem. The way I get round it is to open the excel csv file
in Libre office
(free to download) using the spreadsheet app. Then I save that file as a
csv file with the encoding at UTF8. I then import that data and it has
worked fine.

I assume that the excel file has listed the responses as separate lines in
the first place?

Hope that this helps
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> 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?
> 
> HELP!!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
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