[gentoo-science] Installing SPSS in gentoo linux

[gentoo-science] Installing SPSS in gentoo linux

[Cruz Enrique Borges]

Hello

I was wondering if I can install SPSS in gentoo linux. I personally use R but
my brother don't have the skill to manage in a command line enviorment.
He has tryed rk-ward and PSPP and don't fell confortable enought so he wants
to try with the spss linux port. 

Have anyone manage to install it? I have google for an ebuild or a how-to 
without luck and I will trying to download the package right now.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Cruz Enrique Borges Hernández
Email: cruz.borges@deusto.es

DeustoTech Energy
Telefono: 944139000 ext.2052
Avda. Universidades, 24
48007 Bilbao, Spain

Re: [gentoo-science] Installing SPSS in gentoo linux

[Neil Shephard]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Cruz Enrique Borges
<cruz.borges@deusto.es> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was wondering if I can install SPSS in gentoo linux. I personally use R but
> my brother don't have the skill to manage in a command line enviorment.
> He has tryed rk-ward and PSPP and don't fell confortable enought so he wants
> to try with the spss linux port.
>
> Have anyone manage to install it? I have google for an ebuild or a how-to
> without luck and I will trying to download the package right now.

SPSS is licensed software so you'll have to ensure you have one.
Never installed before, but I'd imagine it comes packaged with an
installer (or as an RPM) and I'd be inclined to install locally into
users home directory (e.g. ~/bin).  Not a very clean/gentoo approach,
but I doubt it warrants writing an ebuild.

You might want to consider some of the R GUI's such as...

R Commander
RGNumeric

...and others detailed at http://sciviews.org/_rgui/

Neil
-- 
"The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
of data." ~ John Tukey (1986), "Sunset salvo". The American
Statistician 40(1)

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Re: [gentoo-science] Installing SPSS in gentoo linux

[Cruz Enrique Borges]

On Wednesday 21 September 2011 10:40:47 Neil Shephard wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Cruz Enrique Borges
> <cruz.borges@deusto.es> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I was wondering if I can install SPSS in gentoo linux. I personally use R but
> > my brother don't have the skill to manage in a command line enviorment.
> > He has tryed rk-ward and PSPP and don't fell confortable enought so he wants
> > to try with the spss linux port.
> >
> > Have anyone manage to install it? I have google for an ebuild or a how-to
> > without luck and I will trying to download the package right now.
> 
> SPSS is licensed software so you'll have to ensure you have one.
> Never installed before, but I'd imagine it comes packaged with an
> installer (or as an RPM) and I'd be inclined to install locally into
> users home directory (e.g. ~/bin).  Not a very clean/gentoo approach,
> but I doubt it warrants writing an ebuild.

I have managed to install MAPLE before that way. I hope it will be the same. 
I suppose the University where he works have licenses (at least for the windows
version...). Anyway I will use the trial version to test.

> You might want to consider some of the R GUI's such as...
> 
> R Commander
> RGNumeric
> 
> ...and others detailed at http://sciviews.org/_rgui/

As I was told he has tryed but did not find confortable with anyone. 

Thanks for the quick reply!

> Neil
> 
-- 
Cruz Enrique Borges Hernández
Email: cruz.borges@deusto.es

DeustoTech Energy
Telefono: 944139000 ext.2052
Avda. Universidades, 24
48007 Bilbao, Spain

Re: [gentoo-science] Installing SPSS in gentoo linux

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On 11:57 Wed 21 Sep     , Cruz Enrique Borges wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 10:40:47 Neil Shephard wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Cruz Enrique Borges
> > <cruz.borges@deusto.es> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I was wondering if I can install SPSS in gentoo linux. I personally use R but
> > > my brother don't have the skill to manage in a command line enviorment.
> > > He has tryed rk-ward and PSPP and don't fell confortable enought so he wants
> > > to try with the spss linux port.
> > >
> > > Have anyone manage to install it? I have google for an ebuild or a how-to
> > > without luck and I will trying to download the package right now.
> > 
> > SPSS is licensed software so you'll have to ensure you have one.
> > Never installed before, but I'd imagine it comes packaged with an
> > installer (or as an RPM) and I'd be inclined to install locally into
> > users home directory (e.g. ~/bin).  Not a very clean/gentoo approach,
> > but I doubt it warrants writing an ebuild.
> 
> I have managed to install MAPLE before that way. I hope it will be the same. 
> I suppose the University where he works have licenses (at least for the windows
> version...). Anyway I will use the trial version to test.
> 
> > You might want to consider some of the R GUI's such as...
> > 
> > R Commander
> > RGNumeric

I would particularly recommend RStudio, which is more modern and 
prettier.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Science developer
Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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Re: [gentoo-science] Installing SPSS in gentoo linux

[Neil Shephard]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> > You might want to consider some of the R GUI's such as...
>> >
>> > R Commander
>> > RGNumeric
>
> I would particularly recommend RStudio, which is more modern and
> prettier.
>

RStudio is very nice, but its not likely to help someone who's
struggling with Command Line Interface and is hankering for the
pull-down menus of SPSS.

Neil


-- 
"The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
of data." ~ John Tukey (1986), "Sunset salvo". The American
Statistician 40(1)

Email - nshephard@gmail.com
Website - http://kimura.no-ip.org/
Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/