RE: finding new developers

[Charles Johnson]

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> Subject: Re: finding new developers 
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> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:43:22 +1000 
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> Or perhaps start a different paradigm for adding function to PSPP  
> (still need developers but maybe fewer): 
> The big advantage of SPSS in my eyes was and is ease of use so why not  
> focus on the front-end role of PSPP and 
> put developer time there and leave the backend processing to R-Project  
> for the calculating side of the task. 
> That is, develop a general hook from PSPP into R (?start with  
> generating R batch files and then bring R output back into PSPP) 
> and focus on PSPP commands to drive that hook? 
>  

See: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/faq.html#Merge

I think you'd better ask for a user-friendly GUI to R developers, although 
there are several.
In my experience, pspp works much faster than alternatives using large data, 
which is an advantage. For that and other reasons I think pspp should be 
further developed.  I agree that PSPPire must be on par with pspp, but the 
advantage here is that pspp commands are easy to use by knowledgeable SPSS 
largely unchanged.

> There is an approach to pivot tables in  
> R http://www.rforexcelusers.com/make-pivottable-in-r/ which could  
> perhaps be a starter for basic CTABLES back-end functionality? 
>  
> Regards 
> Nigel 
> 


CJT