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PSPP-BUG: PSPP 1.2.0 - Easy documentation clarification for COUNT


From: Nolan Void
Subject: PSPP-BUG: PSPP 1.2.0 - Easy documentation clarification for COUNT
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 04:36:38 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

In PSP 1.2.0. Confirmed on Gentoo 4.14.83.

Description:

Manual entry 12.4 COUNT indicates syntax as

  COUNT var_name = var… (value…).

This is correct, but incomplete. This might be better:

  COUNT var_name = var… (value…) [/var_name=...]

That's not perfectly accurate, either. But it's close to the SPSS
manual, and probably gets the idea across better than

  COUNT var_name = var… (value…) [/var_name = var… (value…)] ...

which kinda makes yer eyes cross. Anyway, the change is so folks
know that they can do things like

count q1 = x1 to x5 ( 0 thru 24)
     /q2 = x1 to x5 (25 thru 49)
     /q3 = x1 to x5 (50 thru 74)
     /q4 = x1 to x5 (75 thru 99).

I'm just working my way through the manual, as I teach myself PSPP
and SPSS. So, I'm in a good position to catch this sort of stuff. As
always, thank you for your work.

Nolan Void




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