Jessie Braden <[email protected]> writes: > I tried exporting the data table as a .por file but I get an error. It says, > “error: creating temporary file C:\Program Files\PSPP\test;.por.tmpOOIp1n: > Permission denied.” > > We have to have an admin login to install programs so I wonder if I can’t even > write to the C:\Program Files folder. Any thoughts? I also tried going > through the syntax editor and doing EXPORT (calling it a .csv file) but I got > the same error.
What directory did you tell PSPPIRE to put the file into? If it isn't C:\Program Files\PSPP, then this sounds like a bug. What syntax did you use? > Somehow, though, the other day I did manage to create a .por file. However it > was really small and came through totally jumbled when I tried to open it in > Excel using the Text Import Wizard. Using Excel 2010 and PSPPIRE > 0.7.5-g70514b. A .por file contains text but it isn't plain text. I wouldn't expect that it would import sensibly in anything that doesn't specifically understand the .por format. > Finally I tried selecting the whole table and simply Copy->Paste. This is > almost works except I consistently lose about 8 rows of data (from the middle > of my dataset). And the headers don’t copy over. Our dataset only has 145 rows > of data so far but we have 427 variables (huge survey). It won’t let me Copy > from Variable View (I could grab the column headers that way and transpose in > Excel). Hmm. I tried a bunch of copy and paste of large table data just now (over 900 rows, hundreds of columns) and couldn't reproduce a problem like that. A few programs that I pasted into did lose some rows, but always at the end. I didn't have any trouble with the headers. I think that your best bet is probably to export the output to .csv format. This works OK for me with the latest PSPPIRE; just select CSV format from File|Export in the Output window. You'll probably want to upgrade from 0.7.5 to the latest version though. I don't know where to get an up-to-the-minute latest version for Windows. My test platform is GNU/Linux. I hear that there are Windows specific bugs; perhaps this is one. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
