R-beta: exchanging data between R/Splus and SPSS
Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
is there any way to exchange (A LOT OF) data between SPPS and R/Splus, i.e., I want to get data from SPSS into R. It is a huge data frame with many columns being factors, so manual conversion is out of question (and there are more data to come). Exporting ASCII from SPSS seems to loose all level names, and the portable SPSS format doesn't look too nice. I've searched S-news and statlib, but only found info about DBMS/copy which is not installed at our university. Did I miss something? Any help appreciated,
Fritz, You may want to contact Ben Pfaff about this. Ben is the author of PSPP, a freely-available SPSS clone. It may be able to read the SPSS format and put it into something that would be easier to bring into R/Splus.
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