Mon 09 Aug 2010 09:10:09 AM UTC, comment #2:
I'm not sure if I can provide the appropriate aswers as I'm completely new to both SPSS and PSPP and I'm not used to write syntax either.
I pasted the combined syntax+data-file from my survey into a new syntax window and selected run->all. This brought up:
The error is: Syntax1:12: syntax error: Input format DATETIME0.0
specifies width 0, but DATETIME requires a width between 17 and 40.
When changed to DATETIME20 (John Darrington helped me with that) it still brought up the following:
Syntax1:70: data file warning: (columns 33-32, DATETIME field) Syntax error in date field.
Syntax1:71: data file warning: (columns 33-32, DATETIME field) Syntax error in date field.
Syntax1:72: data file warning: (columns 36-35, DATETIME field) Syntax error in date field.
Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 3-2, F field) Field contents are not numeric.
Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 36-35, F field) Field contents are not numeric.
Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 62-61, DATETIME field) Delimiter expected between fields in date.
Syntax1:73: data file warning: (columns 71-70, F field) Field contents are not numeric.
The gui tells me there are 1770 messages in total, it displays 110 and I just selected the first seven of them above.
Even though these messages come up, it loads them but the fields are wrong (as in every line has a offset).
That's where I switched to SPSS-demo, imported the file, wrote a .sav and imported that into PSPP. Worked fine.
To your other questions: It is a DATA LIST FREE(TAB) and one line out of it looks like that (I replaced Tabs my ' \t ' to make the list a bit more readable in this webview):
1 \t \t \t 11 \t surveyname \t interview \t 24-07-2010 14:22:05 \t 1 \t 2 \t 3 \t 2 \t 3 \t \t 2 \t \t 1 \t 1 \t 2 \t 2 \t 1 \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t 1 \t 1 \t 2 \t 1 \t 3 \t 2 \t 2 \t 1 \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t \t 1 \t 2 \t 2 \t 1 \t 1 \t \t
I hope that helps... if you need more informations, tell me.
All this was happening in PSPP 0.6.2 on Ubuntu (straight from repository).
For performance reasons I left the vm out now and build PSPP via Macports, which brought up some more problems but with the .sav file it works fine.
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