Re: PSPP not working

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Alan Mead <address@hidden> wrote:

(Building off my last answer) That depends on how long you've allowed it to run. Maybe PSPP is too slow.

-Alan
On 9/23/2016 12:33 PM, Cecily Ray wrote:
Dear Alan,

I have just now tried your suggestion on running Freq/variable in a blank window.

That too gets PSPPIRE Editor (Not Responding). I have tried that on my daughter's

laptop (a 64 bit COMPAQ) since I had already uninstalled PSPP on my laptop.

I kind of assume that the dataset is too big for PSPP.

Regards,

Cecily Ray
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Cecily Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
Dear Alan,
Thank you for your early reply.

I had installed version 10.2 of PSPP. for 64 bit computers with Windows 7.

My dataset was downloaded from http://dhsprogram.com/

(a Demographic and Health Survey for India) and its size is 429,852 Kb.

I have been able to look at many of the variables to see their full names appear

but when I ask the program to give me a frequency or something else, the top

bar above the dataset says "(Not responding)".

I am sorry I don't understand all the technical words you are using ("gui" etc.)

but I have used SPSS for a number of years for my study and work so I know

how to use it. However I never use any syntax apart from the program itself.

I hope this clarifies the problem I am facing.

Thanks and regards,

Cecily Ray
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Alan Mead <address@hidden> wrote:
Do you recall what version of PSPP you installed? Do you recall if it was the 32-bit or 64-bit version? I am using an older version, pspp 0.10.1-g1082b8, and it works fine on my 64-bit windows 7.

When you say that the program doesn't respond, you click on the gui and a dialog opens but the statistics doesn't show up in the output? Or what exactly do you mean by "does not respond"? Compared to SPSS (which raises the output window when new output appears) PSPP is relatively quiet (the output window should "throb" but not raise itself).

After opening a dataset, if you click File > New > Syntax do you get a blank syntax window? And can you type: "freq / x." (without the quotes)? And If you then change "x" to be one of your variables and select Run > All does output appear?

-Alan

On 9/23/2016 6:44 AM, Cecily Ray wrote:
Dear Programmers,

Yesterday I installed PPSP for Windows (I have version 7) on my Toshiba Satellite C655 laptop (64 bit).

The dataset opens nicely but the program does not respond whenever I try any performing any operation

like frequencies of a variable.

If you can help me know what to do at the earliest, I would be most grateful.

Thanking you,

Cecily Ray
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From:	Cecily Ray
Subject:	Re: PSPP not working
Date:	Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:21:32 +0530