Re: [documentliberation-discuss] (Proposed) Importing files from proprietary statistical software

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 01:09:09AM -0300, Bastián Díaz wrote:
> IBM SPSS (*.sav*.zsav files) - This type of files no public specification available, there is a 
> great project pert intended as a free replacement for SPSS and contains a program that can read 
> and create files of this type.http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pspp/
>
>
> Stata (*.dta files) -file spechttp://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta
>
>
> Test files:https://github.com/bedf/PSPP-dev-utilities/tree/master/data-files
>
>
> I understand that this project is different from LibreOffice,

Document Liberation Project _is not_ LibreOffice :-) They are just siblings.
There is not even any rule that every library we produce must be used by
LibreOffice...

> but this may be one of the software benefit from the idea. The file type presented fairly meet 
> the guidelines of the project, so I'd like to know what the developers say, in addition to 
> reporting improvement in LibreOffice.

Is there at least a chance that the files can reasonably be imported as
spreadsheets? I do not know statistical software in general, so I have no
idea what sorts of data relations, special functions etc. could be saved in
the files. These would likely be "lost in translation".

Anyway, since there already is a project that can import the file format, it
would seem preferable to try to convince them to release the import code as a
separate library. (It would still be possible to write a librevenge-based
wrapper around that library, if there were anyone interested to do it. And it
would be much simpler than writing a whole parser from scratch.)

D.

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