PStat2Octave

This simplistic and hacked program is able to convert many of the files that come with The Practise of Statisics into something GNU Octave can understand. These sets of data can be downloaded at the book's companion website. Here is a direct link to the file containing the downloadable files.

This program uses the first line of the file to determine the variable names for octave. It reads data from standard input and writes to standard output. It doesn't need to be able to fseek around in those streams, so it should be pipe-safe. Here is the source code in totallity. It is released under the GNU Affero Public License. You may compile it using something like 

gcc -o pstat2octave pstat2octave.c
. Gentoo users might want to use 
gcc -Wall -o pstat2octave $(portageq envvar CFLAGS) $(portageq envvar LDFLAGS) pstat2octave.c
:-).

If you have problems with this program, please just email me at the following address: Jason Smith's email address's username is the concatenation of his first initial and last name. His email address's domain is the same as that of the webpage you are viewing unless if this is mirrored for some reason. Jason doesn't exist, but his email is read by the author of this software. I may actually be able to help you.