Re: PROBLEM CREATING A DATE VARIABLE

[Alan Mead]

    Sounds like PSPP or psppire is crashing, which shouldn't be
    happening.
    
    But I cannot replicate the issue. I opened a dataset in PSPP version
    GNU pspp 1.4.0-gc3c044 on Windows and I executed these lines:
    
    NUMERIC EndDate (F10).                     /*Worked up to here. 
    Crashes on the next line*/
    COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31). 
    execute.
    
    And PSPP operated as expected. I see a new variable, EndDate, with a
    value of 160086 for all cases.
    
    How sure are you that your copy crashes with YRMODA()? 
    
    It's also possible that your PSPP entered an unstable state for
    whatever reason. Maybe if you reboot your computer and restart PSPP
    it will not re-occur?
    
    I guess if it does continue to occur and you cannot send information
    to replicate the problem, I'd try running PSPP in batch mode from
    the command line, because if it is crashing, you will probably see
    an error message that you can report and which may allow the problem
    to be identified. Here's what I had to type: 
    
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" error.sps
    
    (WITH the double quotes).
    
    -Alan

On 3/6/2021 6:06 PM, Ricardo Mejias wrote:

The code below is applied to a file that already contains several variables, to which I want to add two more that I create (but it is too large to go through email and my attempts to select the first 100 records is not working either).  When the code gets to COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31)., the program crashes with all of its windows disappearing from the screen.

What am I doing wrong and what do I have to do to correct it?

GET /FILE = "E:\GNU_PSPP\FloridaTotalsFiles\SelectedAndAddedFields_20210209.sav"

FILTER OFF.

USE ALL.

SELECT IF(NOT MISSING(BirthDate)).

STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).

COMPUTE ResidenceZipcodes=SUBSTR(ResidenceZipcode,1,5).

DELETE VARIABLES ResidenceZipcode.

NUMERIC EndDate (F10).                     /*Worked up to here.  Crashes on the next line*/

COMPUTE EndDate = YRMODA(2021, 01, 31).

FORMAT EndDate (ADATE10).

COMPUTE AgeInMonths = DATEDIFF(EndDate,BirthDate,'days') / (365.25*12).

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> Subject: Re: PSPP for windows.
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> Harry Thijssen had set up a process to cross-compile PSPP on Linux to
> produce a windows package (and I think he also wrote the nullsoft
> installer).


Thanks Alan, but I don't earn the credits for the Nullsoft installer. I am
just a user of it. :-)

Stay safe
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