Bernd,
Thanks.
- Bob
Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bernd Weiss <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2006 8:27 am
Subject: Re: RE: st: import SPSS files
> On 5 Jul 2006 at 8:16, Robert A Yaffee wrote:
>
> From: Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date sent: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:16:20 -0400
> Subject: Re: RE: st: import SPSS files
> Send reply to: [email protected]
>
> > Nuno,
> > You're quite right. The R package read.spss(foreign)
> > will work on SPSS v. 14 files. If the data set is
> > called test.sav, then the command to read it is
> > testsav<-read.spss("test.sav"). Then you can use
> > the extractors to deal with the variables.
> > I suppose you can then use write.sta("testsav") to produce
> > the Stata file?
> > - RY
>
> Two minor remarks: You better use
>
> testsav<-read.spss("test.sav",to.data.frame=TRUE)
>
> to read your data into R and
>
> write.dta(testsav,file="testsav.dta")
>
> to save your data as Stata-file.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bernd
> --
> Bernd Weiss, M.A.
> University of Cologne / Research Institute for Sociology
> Greinstr. 2 / D-50939 Cologne / Germany
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