PSPP in Rust

PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.

This is an experimental rewrite of PSPP in Rust. The goal of the rewrite is to ensure that PSPP can be as robust as possible, while remaining fast and portable.

This new version is very incomplete--in fact, only a subset of the pspp-convert utility is really ready for use.

Installing PSPP

To install this version of PSPP from source, first install Rust using the instructions at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install. PSPP requires Rust 1.88 or later. Once you've done that, you can download PSPP source code from crates.io and build and install it with:

cargo install pspp

If you have already checked out a copy of this repository, then you can instead cd into rust/pspp in the source tree and run:

cargo install --path .

The install commands above also work for upgrades.

To uninstall later, run:

cargo uninstall pspp

Running PSPP

After installing PSPP using one of the methods above, run it with:

pspp

For help, use pspp --help. The only really useful PSPP commands currently are convert and show. Help for individual commands is available with pspp <command> --help.

Reading the manual

The PSPP manual may be read at [https://pspp.benpfaff.org/manual].

The manual is maintained in mdBook format. To build it yourself, first install mdBook using the instructions at https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/guide/installation.html. Then, from the root of a checked-out copy of this repository, build the manual with:

(cd rust/doc && mdbook build)

This will output the manual as HTML under rust/doc/book/html.

Reporting bugs

As this is an experiment, please don't have high expectations (yet). However, questions and comments about using PSPP may be sent to pspp-users@gnu.org. Please email bug reports to bug-gnu-pspp@gnu.org or file them online at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pspp. Please indicate that you are referring to the Rust rewrite.