What's more, the open/save dialogue boxes are a nightmare of poor programming. This lets SPSS customize the front end for each platform, and makes the software somewhat more future-proof than its past practice of outsourcing ports but it does seem to impact the speed. Unlike SAS, SPSS makes its flagship software for Macs and Linux as well as Windows, using a core statistics engine addressed by a Java-based front end. competes with SAS for dominance in the big leagues of statistics software.
It can open SPV files more quickly and just as accurately as SmartReader, and will do so more consistently (in that it will actually open them repeatedly rather than freezing after the first two files). Download PSPP, which comes in at around 1/3 the size. (IBM has several obsolete links to it on their web site.) Here is a link to the place to get the current SmartReader link. It also requires you to log into IBM, creating an IBM ID if needed. Try dragging it into the (running) SmartViewer.įinding SmartReader is hard, too it doesn't come with SPSS, and it's hard to find on the IBM web site (don't try searching, that just takes you to a page full of coding community events). Launching takes some time and once launched, you then have to manually open the file even if you opened SmartViewer by double-clicking on an output file.
Expect to wait ten seconds if you are foolish enough to change any preferences. There, SPSS SmartReader (or SmartViewer) has not been updated past version 24 for the Mac, though it is available for Windows and Linux users up to version 27.Įven if you can download and run SmartViewer or SmartReader 24, it is painfully slow even on a new, modern computer, such as an i7 Mini 8,1 with 16 GB of RAM. save for one, and that’s for Mac users who need to read SPSS SPV output files without a licensed copy. It should have all the capabilities of the Windows version, though. SPSS generally runs slowly on a Mac, compared with running on Windows. See our starting guide to using SPSS statistics software Introductory note: SmartReader / SmartViewer
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