can rename the suffix to .raw and insheet it right
into Stata.
Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Shirley M. Ehrenkranz
School of Social Work
New York University
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----- Original Message -----
From: Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 10:53 pm
Subject: Re: st: import SPSS files
> Peggy,
> The R program is several versions behind on the ability
> to read or import SPSS programs. If you had SPSS, you
> could copy and paste from the SPSS data editor to the
> Stata data editor. Alternatively, you save your data
> as a Stata 8 file from SPSS.
> If the file is in an SPSS.sav file, ask the person
> who sent it to you to provide it in an exported print or
> Stata file. If the person does not have a recent version
> of SPSS which can do this, have the person export an
> Excel file for you (if you have Excel).
> You can save that as a .raw file and insheet it into
> Stata.
> Regards,
> Robert Yaffee
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
> Research Professor
> Shirley M. Ehrenkranz
> School of Social Work
> New York University
>
> home address:
> Apt 19-W
> 2100 Linwood Ave.
> Fort Lee, NJ
> 07024-3171
> Phone: 201-242-3824
> Fax: 201-242-3825
> [email protected]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Williams <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 11:37 pm
> Subject: Re: st: import SPSS files
>
> > At 08:26 PM 7/4/2006, Dick Campbell wrote:
> > >I don't know R, but if you go to
> > >http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-
> > patched/library/foreign/html/00Index.html>you will find a routine
> > that reads SPSS.
> > >
> > >At 08:08 PM 7/4/2006 Tuesday, you wrote:
> > >>I cannot verify whether the file is comma-delimited or
> > >>tab-delimited as I do not have SPSS. If I did I would be able
> to
> > do
> > >>this without the assistance of those more knowledgeable than I.
> I
> > >>have only Stata and R available to me. Thanks for the
> assistance
> > and the link.
> > >>Peggy
> >
> > Hopefully that routine will do the trick. If not I would suggest
> >
> > * Hunt around for some kindly friend who has Stat/Transfer, SPSS,
> > or
> > DBMSCopy who will do the conversion for you
> >
> > * Peggy's email address is at washington.edu - surely somewhere
> on
> > campus somebody has the above programs
> >
> > * Splurge and buy Stat/Transfer, a very handy little program. See
> >
> > http://www.stattransfer.com/html/store.html
> >
> > Or, better yet, you might qualify for gradplan pricing ($63, at
> > least
> > at my school). See
> >
> > http://www.stata.com/order/schoollist.html
> >
> >
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