Re: PSPP now implements proper pivot tables

[Ben Pfaff]

Yes, that's true, for now (or you can use my nightly build for 32-bit
Linux, if that's suitable for you).  I assume that the usual folks who
do builds will catch up after the holidays.

Like I said, for now the changes are probably not that obvious, but
there's a lot of new infastructure that enables further improvements.  I
already have a hacky version that opens SPV files in PSPPIRE.

On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:57:09PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> This is great news! To run this version, we would need to pull the
> sources from github and compile them?
> 
> -Alan
> 
> 
> On 1/1/2019 1:22 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Until now, the PSPP output engine has had a pretty basic notion of what
> > constitutes a table.  It was essentially the same sort of model you'd
> > find in a word processor, where a table has some number of rows and
> > columns and you can put what you want in them, join or split them, add
> > lines between them, and so on.  It's flexible enough, but not well
> > suited for filling with data.
> >
> > Over the last few months, I've reimplemented the output engine in terms
> > of pivot tables, similar to what you'd find in spreadsheet software or
> > in SPSS.  This is maybe slightly less flexible overall, but it's a lot
> > easier to deal with as a developer (it takes less code and less thought
> > to produce output that is at least as nice) and ultimately should allow
> > for a much better user interface.  Tonight, I got that work to a point
> > where I was satisfied and pushed it to master.
> >
> > For now, users probably won't notice big changes.  For some procedures,
> > the output will appear a little different.  Please report any bugs you
> > find.
> >
> > I am now working toward the next step, in which PSPPIRE becomes able to
> > read SPV files.  After that, I might work to make it able to write them
> > as well.  It's also now a lot more feasible to add some interface for
> > editing tables (and for pivoting them!) to the UI.
> >
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