SPSS's transformation language. Its statistical procedure support is
currently limited, but growing.
-Instructions for installation are in INSTALL. Before you install
-PSPP, you will need to install certain prerequisites:
-
- * An ANSI C compiler and tool chain.
-
- * The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later,
- including libgslcblas included with GSL.
-
- * Perl, version 5.005_03 or later. (Perl is required during build
- but not after installation.)
-
- * pkg-config (only if you need to regenerate configure after
- modifying configure.ac).
-
- * iconv, which should be installed as part of a Unix-like system.
- If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU
- libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
-
- * Optional: libncurses. Without it, PSPP will assume it is
- running in an 80x25 terminal.
-
- * Optional: libreadline and libhistory. Without them, interactive
- command editing and history features will be disabled.
-
- * Optional: libplot (from GNU plotutils). Without it,
- graphing features will not work. If you do not have it
- installed, you must run `configure' with --without-libplot.
-
- * Optional: GTK+ version 2.6.0 or later (2.10.2 or later is
- recommended), plus libglade 2.0 or later. Without them, the
- GUI will not be built. If you do not have these installed, you
- must run `configure' with --without-gui.
-
- * Optional: Texinfo 4.7 or later, if you want to build the
- documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
+Instructions for PSPP installation are in INSTALL, including a list of
+prerequisite packages and other PSPP-specific information.
For information on differences from previous versions, please see file
NEWS. Full documentation on PSPP's language can be found in the doc/
Questions and comments about using PSPP may be sent to pspp-users@gnu.org.
Bug reports may be filed at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp
-or emailed to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. (We prefer the web-based system
-because it makes it more difficult for us to lose track of bugs.)
+or emailed to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org. We prefer the web-based system
+because it makes it more difficult for us to lose track of bugs, but we
+are happy to hear from users through any means.
The long term goals for PSPP are ambitious. We wish to provide the
following support to users:
an "enhanced" mode in certain cases where PSPP can output
better results that may surprise SPSS users.
- * Friendly textual and graphical interfaces. PSPP does not do
- a good job of this yet.
+ * Friendly textual and graphical interfaces. This release
+ includes the first version of PSPPIRE, the PSPP graphical
+ user interface.
* Attractive output, including graphs, in a variety of human-
and machine-readable formats. PSPP currently produces