Message-ID: <1117287352.22595.8.camel@horizons.localdomain>
Date: 2005-05-28T13:35:52Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: read.spss trouble
In-Reply-To: <1117286593.18296.7.camel@localhost>
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 13:23 +0000, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm not sure if this is an german list, so I will post in english.
The official language is English.
> I'm using R on my gentoo linux and now I got an spss .sav file. I found
> that r has a function like read.spss("file.sav") but when I try this I
> get the Error: couldn't find function "read.spss". Can anyone tell me
> what's going wrong?
read.spss() is part of the "foreign" package, which is installed as part
of the base R installation, but it is not loaded by default.
Thus, you need to use:
library(foreign)
read.spss(...)
See ?library and page 74 in "An Introduction to R".
HTH,
Marc Schwartz