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bug #30731: FREQUENCIES: Format of "Frequency" column in output appears fixed

Submitter:  Ben Pfaff <blp>
Submitted:  Tue 10 Aug 2010 04:24:57 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Output Driver Severity:  5 - Average
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  Before 0.8.0
Effort:  0.00
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Sun 26 May 2013 11:44:05 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Fixed with commit 3079a93f224d (Avoid letting data fields overflow in output and GUI.).

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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Wed 22 May 2013 06:25:47 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I'm working on this.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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Sun 25 Nov 2012 04:59:53 AM UTC, comment #1: 

It doesn't make sense for SET FORMAT to control the frequency count format, because the default for SET FORMAT is F8.2 but frequency counts are usually integers.

It is possible to control the format for the frequencies by weighting the active file, then setting the format for the weight variable.

My current thinking is that this would be an appropriate place to use the "stretchy" data formatting function described in bug #35829 (but not yet implemented).

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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Tue 10 Aug 2010 04:24:57 PM UTC, original submission:  

From: lavila <la@jump23.com>


> In working with a file of ~250 million records, the report ends up with
> scientific notation type numbers like so:
>
> +-----------+-----+---------+-------+-------------+-----------+
> |Value Label|Value|Frequency|Percent|Valid Percent|Cum Percent|
> #===========#=====#=========#=======#=============#===========#
> |           |     | 12274173|   4.59|         4.59|       4.59|
> |           |    F|   1E+008|  51.56|        51.56|      56.15|
> |           |    M|   1E+008|  43.85|        43.85|     100.00|
> #===========#=====#=========#=======#=============#===========#
> |            Total|   3E+008|  100.0|        100.0|           |
> +-----------------+---------+-------+-------------+-----------+


I believe that this should be controllable with SET FORMAT or by changing the format of the weight variable, but lavila reports that this does not work (in PSPP 0.7.5).

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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