SPUG: SPSS Data File Parsing

C.J. Adams-Collier cjac at colliertech.org
Thu Sep 24 14:26:44 PDT 2009


There seems to be something related to GNU PSPP on the CPAN here:

http://search.cpan.org/~pdonelan/PSPP-Perl-0.7.2.20090730/lib/PSPP.pm

Project page on savannah:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp

C code here:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.6.0.tar.gz


On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 13:59 -0700, Dan Sabath wrote:
> CJ, SPSS is a statistical analysis package along the lines of SAS.
> www.spss.com
> 
> Peter, you might want to start with this thread over at google groups
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.stat.spss/browse_thread/thread/b28a16fd478e4723?pli=1
> 
> particularly the entry that mentions this link
> http://pspp.benpfaff.org/conversion.html
> 
> The Perl script that handles the conversion is available via the PSPP
> git repository.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:32:47PM -0400, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> > Uhhm... What's SPSS?
> > 
> > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 11:55 -0700, Peter Darley wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > >                 I???m looking at having to build some SPSS data files
> > > (.sav) automatically from our database, and would like to use perl to
> > > do it.  However, there isn???t anything in CPAN and my google fu has
> > > totally failed me.  If anyone has any pointers as to where to look for
> > > info I would be mucho grateful.  Additionally, if someone has
> > > experience with automating SPSS files, drop me a line and I may have a
> > > budget for some work if this project goes through (this wouldn???t be
> > > for several months however).
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Peter Darley
> > > Kinesis CEM, LLC
> > > 
> > > 
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