Statist 1.4.1 Released
Jakson A. Aquino
jalvesaq at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 21:55:02 CET 2006
Lightweight statist(ical) application release!
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Statist 1.4.1 is available!
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WHAT IS STATIST?
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Statist is a small and portable statistics program written in C.
It is terminal-based, but can use Gnuplot for plotting purposes.
Scripting is possible and Statist handles big datasets
reasonably well on small machines. It is also easy to use due to
its interactive menu, being a very handy tool also for those who
do not use statistics every day.
Statist is Free Software under GNU GPL v>=2.
THE DOCUMENTATION
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The statist user manual is available in both English and
Portuguese.
The German documentation is partially outdated, but it contains
information about the statistical functions and the way the
program works that are not covered by the new user manual.
REQUIREMENTS
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Statist is very portable. It can be compiled in practically any
system with any C compiler. However, and the system must have
libintl and libiconv to compile the program with support for
languages other than English. If gnuplot is installed, statist
can create graphics.
Some GNU core utils -- gawk and sort -- are useful additions to
prepare databases for use with Statist.
DISTRIBUTION
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Statist source code is available at its homepage:
http://statist.wald.intevation.org/
NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 1.4.1
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* Statist now can open csv files. It will try to discover whether
the file has a header with column names, what is the field
separator, and what is the decimal separator. If necessary,
these parameters might be set using command line options.
* Gnuplot graphics now can have strings with letters of different
alphabets if the environment charset is UTF-8 and the user
chooses UTF-8 as the "gnuplot_charset" in the statistrc file.
* Added menu item "Save last gnuplot graphic as png".
* Added statistrc options "gnuplot_default_term" and
"gnuplot_png_font".
* Do not add the string "#%" to files created with --xcols if
either the command line option --header was used or the
statistrc option autodetect_header is active.
BUGS FIXED IN VERSION 1.4.1
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* No longer crashing if gnuplot isn't installed and the user
tries to run a graphic.
* No longer crashing on menu item 4.1 if there is a "nan" value
in the datafile. Now, the string "nan" is read as missing
value.
* Fixed wrong alignment of columns in "Frequency table", "Compare
means", and "Show data of columns" when the locale charset was
UTF-8, and there is non-ascii characters.
* The min and max values chosen by the user in menu item 4.1
now are used used even if the number of classes wasn't chosen
too.
* Partial correlation with five variables now prints some
correlations that were missing in the output.
* The function extract_cols() now correctly extract non-numeric
values from fixed width column files, but outputs a warning if
such a value is found.
* "Yes/No" questions might be answered in the language that
statist is running.
* The alert character (^G) no longer is written to statist.log.
* Fixed crash in out_r() on AMD64 when the option --log was
active.
* Removes the GPL_DAT file when the user sends to gnuplot the
"quit" command.
* Michael Gebhardt translated the new strings into German.
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