SPSS and R ? do they like each other?

--- ronggui <042045003 at fudan.edu.cn> schrieb:

In fact,when using read.spss to read the spss data
file into R,the labels are retained (keeped) rather
than be dropped.
for example WVS is the data file be readed in,it has
label.table and variable.labels.

names(attributes(WVS.CHINA))
[1] "label.table"     "variable.labels" "names"  
and label.table is something like "value: in spss
file and variable.labels are "label" in spss data
file.
hope this helps.
And if you use spss.get in the Hmisc package (which uses read.spss) 
labels are attributes of individual variables, not of the data frame. 
The labels are automatically used in my Hmisc functions (describe, 
xYplot, Dotplot, summary.formula, contents, ...).

Frank Harrell

Thank you very much! I wil try that.

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SPSS and R ? do they like each other?

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