Re: pspp-1.4.0 released [stable]

[Rick Fiene]

Is there a version of PSPP that runs on Chromebooks?
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On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 7:25 PM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> I'm very pleased to announce the release of a new version of GNU PSPP.
> PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data.  It is a
> free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
>
> Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-1.4.0.tar.gz
>   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>   http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>
> [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
> .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
> and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>
>   gpg --verify pspp-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> then run this command to import it:
>
>   gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 85199DE8C6648E90
>
> and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
> Changes from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0:
>
>  * The file pspp-mode.el (the pspp-mode for Emacs) is no longer distributed
>    with PSPP.  Instead, it can be installed directly in emacs and is
> available
>    from https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/pspp-mode.html
>
>  * The Find dialog box, when searching for numeric values, will match only
>    to the precision of the variable's print format.  This avoids behaviour
>    which is suprising to some users.
>
>  * PSPP now supports the SPSS viewer (.spv) format that SPSS 16 and later
>    use to save the contents of its output editor:
>
>    - PSPP and PSPPIRE can write output to .spv files.
>
>    - The new utility pspp-output can convert .spv files to other formats.
>
>    - The pspp-convert utility can now decrypt encrypted .spv files.  The
>      encrypted viewer file format is unacceptably insecure, so to
>      discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE do not directly read or write
>      this format.
>
>  * A bug where the Data|Select Cases|Random Sample menu would generate
>    invalid syntax has been fixed.
>
>  * FREQUENCIES will emit a warning if one or more weight values are
> missing.
>
>  * Plain text output is no longer divided into pages, since it is now
>    rarely printed on paper.
>
>  * pspp-convert improvements:
>
>    - New "-a", "-l", "--password-list" options to search for an
>      encrypted file's password.
>
>    - New "--keep" and "--drop" options to output only selected variables.
>
>    - New "--recode", "--no-var-name", "--labels", "--print-formats",
>      "--decimal", "--delimiter", and "--qualifier" options to control
>      CSV output.
>
>  * Improvements to SAVE DATA COLLECTION support for MDD files.
>
>  * Bug fix for CVE-2018-20230.
>
>  * The /RENAME subcommand in SAVE TRANSLATE et al. has been extended
>    to support the syntax also accepted by other software.
>
>  * The EXAMINE command will now perform the Shapiro-Wilk test when
>    one or more plots are requested.
>
>  * The REGRESSION command now supports the /STATISTICS=TOL option which
>    outputs tolerance and variance inflation factor metrics for the data.
>
>  * The QUICK CLUSTER command now supports the /SAVE option which can
>    be used to save the cases' cluster membership and/or their distance
>    from the cluster centre to the active file.
>
>  * The MEANS command has been re-implemented.
>
>  * The GUI now has a sub-dialog for post-hoc tests of the oneway
>    anova test.
>
>  * Gtk+3.22.0 or later must now be used when building.
>
>  * GRAPH: Categorical barcharts displaying percentages now show the
>    sub-category as a percentage of the primary category instead of the
>    total.
>
>  * The Syntax Window now has a Find function to perform simple text
>    searching.
>
>  * AUTORECODE:
>
>    - The PRINT subcommand is now implemented.
>
>    - Many bug fixes.
>
>