Re: About Multiple response variables...

[Alan Mead]

I think this message should be on the dev list, whom I've cc'd (but if you're not on it, you won't see the replies to that list).

I don't use MR sets, so my understanding is slight. I think PSPP does not (did not in the past) support that syntax. I see below that there is at least support in reading SAV files.

And I don't know "MDD Writer" but if PSPP is not reading SAV files correctly, I think that's something Ben Pfaff would be interested in knowing. If it comes down to the lack of support for MR sets in PSPP, then obviously a fix would depend on adding that support. But it seems like PSPP should read the metadata.  AFAIK, the code Ben wrote to parse SAV files is widely used (e.g., in R to read spss ddatasets).

If you have datasets that don't read correctly by pspp and they are not super confidential, I'd try converting them here:  https://pspp.benpfaff.org/

If that fails, Ben can access the file and investigate when he has time. That service also gets improvements that Ben is working on but which haven't made it into PSPP.

Finally, I'm sure a patch would be welcome. The source is here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git or here:  http://gnu.spinellicreations.com/pspp/

Ben's the expert, but it looks to me like there's support for MR sets in this file: pspp-1.2.0/src/data/sys-file-reader.c :

$ grep -n mrset sys-file-reader.c
39:#include "data/mrset.h"
146:struct sfm_mrset
150:    enum mrset_type type;       /* Group type. */
155:    enum mrset_md_cat_source cat_source; /* Source of category labels. */
186:    struct sfm_mrset *mrsets;
[about 65 lines omitted]
1923:      dict_add_mrset (dict, mrset);

-Alan

On 10/21/2019 9:33 AM, Dave Trollope wrote:

Can you expand on the known issues with MR sets in PSPP?

We’ve been parsing SAV files and generating the metadata from them with the MDD Writer patch and recently noticed some variables not were not being included in the MR set. If there is a list of known issues with MR set support in parsing, I’d love to read through.

If someone can point me at the point in the code that parses MR sets also, I’d be happy to take a closer look.

Cheers
Dave
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