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2 QUICK START
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5 The "*.dat" files in this directory are examples of statist data files.
6 To open them, just do:
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8 statist data_file
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10 To open the file city.dat with its labels, and to have a colored output:
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12 statist --color city.dat --labels city.labels
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14 SOME DETAILS
15 ===============
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17 The extensions ".dat" to data files and ".labels" to labels files are just a
18 convenience. You can give any name you want to these kind of files.
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20 Please, open the files with your preferred text editor to see what is inside
21 them. Some things that you might note while inspecting the files: (a) you can
22 insert comments in data files; (b) fields might be separated by more than one
23 tab or space; (c) if you want to include the names of columns you must add
24 "#%" at the begin of the line with the names; (d) the format of the labels
25 file is very simple; (e) you can't use strings as values (or factors), but
26 you can attribute names to numbers if you use a labels file.
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28 Please, read the "User Manual" for complete explanation on how to prepare
29 data files for statist.
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