[Blindmath] Spss 16 nightmare

[Jared Wright]

Vincent, Is your instructor not using the standard JDK distributed by 
Sun for developing Java? If that's the compiler being used, and I've no 
idea why it wouldn't be, you should be able to just compile from the 
command line with javac. Of course, if you like the interactive 
environment of Eclipse, that's another story but if it's merely because 
of compilation problems, this might be preferable.

Will be happy to help further off list, but I venture beyond the scope 
of this community now.

Best,
Jared

vincent wrote:
> Hello:
> I am taking a quantitative research methods and Engineering Psychology class
> this semester and both are requiring me to use SPSS version 16 to calculate
> results.  I have done everything imaginable to make SPSS talk enough for me
> to use, but to no avail.  I have installed the old scripts and the Java
> access bridge.  It speaks somewhat, but not enough to truly function.  The
> disability services office took my advice and is going to provide me a
> reader to read the screen for me, so I can at least complete my homework.  
>
> Does anyone know if the statistical package "R: can do the same things that
> SPSS will do?  Also, will it read a .sav Spss file or will I have to try and
> export the data from the spss file.  
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, because I just don't have the
> time to do all the research this weekend myself.  I have to spend time
> catching up in my JAVA programming class.  Of curse the compiler the school
> is using was written in JAVA and does not speak enough to use.  I have moved
> on to Eclipse and am happily coding away.
>
>
>
> "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you'll be a
> Man, my son!"
>
> Rudyard Kipling
>
>  
>
>
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