Re: PSPP-BUG: pspp bugs

[Ben Pfaff]

Joseph Saint Pierre <address@hidden> writes:

>  I send you a list of bugs which have been detected by Julie Séguéla
> when she was writing the documentation for GNU/PSPP in french.

Thank you for reporting this.  I have now submitted several of
these to the PSPP bug system at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp

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Below, I will comment on bugs that I could not reproduce.

> Command file:
>
> ******************************************************************
> DATA LIST NOTABLE /X1 TO X5 1-10.
> BEGIN DATA.
>  1-120  13
> 20-3-54220
> 1520-6-314
> END DATA.
> MISSING VALUES X1 TO X5 (LO THRU 0).
> COUNT Y1=X1 TO X5(MISSING).
> LIST.
> ******************************************************************

For me, this input produced the expected output, without an error
message.  Perhaps the difference is related to the difference in
our systems (it seems you are running Solaris on a Sun system,
whereas I am running GNU/Linux on an x86 system), or perhaps the
bug has been finished in the CVS version of PSPP.

> ******************************************************************
> DATA LIST LIST FILE="exemple35" /SEXE (F1) AGE (F2) TAILLE (F4.2).
> VALUE LABELS /SEXE 1 "homme" 2 "femme".
> SAVE /OUTFILE=ages.sav.
>
> GET FILE=ages.sav /DROP=TAILLE.
> LIST.
> ******************************************************************

Same comments as the previous example here.

I know that I have fixed several bugs in GET and SAVE since PSPP
0.4.0 was released, so that is probably why this works for me.

> ******************************************************************
> DATA LIST LIST FILE="exemple35" /SEXE (F1) AGE (F2) TAILLE (F4.2).
> VALUE LABELS /SEXE 1 "homme" 2 "femme".
> SAVE /OUTFILE=ages.sav.
> GET FILE=ages.sav /KEEP=SEXE AGE.
> LIST.
> ******************************************************************

Same comments as the previous example here.

I know that I have fixed several bugs in GET and SAVE since PSPP
0.4.0 was released, so that is probably why this works for me.

> The LEAVE command does not work properly
>
> Command file:
>
> ******************************************************************
>  DATA LIST /ITEM 1-3.
>      COMPUTE SUM=SUM+ITEM.
>      PRINT /ITEM SUM.
>      LEAVE SUM
>      BEGIN DATA.
>      123
>      404
>      555
>      999
>      END DATA.
> ******************************************************************

This is definitely a bug, and I have filed a bug report.
However, it is actually a bug in COMPUTE.  If you want to make
this work, you can insert the command "NUMERIC SUM." just above
the COMPUTE command and it will produce the expected results.

> In SAVE command it is impossible to use subcommands such as /DROP,
> /KEEP, /RENAME etc...

This should be fixed in the CVS version of PSPP.

Again, thank you for all the bug reports.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
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