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
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> 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
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