pspp(1)

💅 pspp — a whole system for statistical analysis (yes bestie, the PSPP manual)

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for pspp from the PSPP manual, and it's genuinely iconic. sit down, grab a strawberry something, let's go 🍓✨

✨ NAME ✨

pspp — a system for statistical analysis 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pspp [options] file...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

pspp does statistical analysis on sampled data. like, that's the whole vibe. it takes your data and it runs the numbers and it slays 💅

the detailed documentation comes in html, pdf and info format. and if the info system is installed on your machine, you can peek at the docs like this:

info pspp

on Debian GNU/Linux systems, the full documentation is chillin' in /usr/share/doc/pspp in HTML and PDF formats, and in /usr/share/info in info format. and if you're on some other system, the docs also live at http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp. lowkey everywhere, we love an accessible queen 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — shows a summary of the options. your lil cheat sheet, fr fr 🫶
• --version — shows the version of the program. bc you gotta know which era of pspp you're living in ⭐

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

okay so make a file called example.sps with this content in it:

* Example sps file
data list / v0 to v2 1-9.
begin data.
 12 12 89
 56 12 77
 78 12 73
 90 91
 37 97 85
end data.

descript all
  /stat=all
  /format=serial.

and then run pspp with:

pspp example.sps

and boom, that's it, that's the whole thing. no cap 🌈

more example files are hanging out in /usr/share/pspp/examples if you want more inspo 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• psppire(1)
• pspp-dump-sav(1)
• pspp-convert(1)

(the whole friend group, periodt)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

pspp was written by Ben Pfaff, John Darrington and others. absolute legends, every single one 🫶✨

and that's a wrap bestie!! this page is from the GNU era, dated 29 Sep 2014, and it's page pspp(1) of the PSPP manual. go forth and analyze statistically 💖🦋🌸