Assistance with data import from Statistica

Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

Steve Burgess wrote:

I am a new R user attempting to convert files from Statistica to R.  I
can export from Statistica to SPSS .por format, but not to the SPSS .sav
format.  Is there a procedure for easily accomplishing this, which will
allow me to keep variable short and long labels (big surveys LOTS of
time to replace all this work).

Many thanks for sharing your time and knowledge.

What about using a database? (or ASCII files if nothing else works...)

Action speaks louder than words:

x <- read.spss("tate96.por")
names(x)[1:10]

[1] "ID"       "EMPLYEE"  "SMSKEY"   "SMSTZONE" "SMSSTATE" "SMSCNTY"
 [7] "SMSCD"    "SMSMSA"   "SMSREP"   "SMSSTRTA"

attr(x,"variable.labels")[1:10]

ID
              "Pre-election Respondent ID"
                                   EMPLYEE
             "Pre-election Interviewer ID"
                                    SMSKEY
                         "Sample Record $"
                                  SMSTZONE
                  "Pre-election Time Zone"
                                  SMSSTATE
            "Pre-election FIPS State Code"
                                   SMSCNTY
           "Pre-election FIPS County code"
                                     SMSCD
"Pre-election FIPS Congressional District"
                                    SMSMSA
              "Pre-election FIPS MSA Code"
                                    SMSREP
                                        ""
                                  SMSSTRTA
                                  "Strata"

x <- read.spss("tate96.por")
attr(x,"variable.labels")[1:5]

ID                        EMPLYEE
  "Pre-election Respondent ID"  "Pre-election Interviewer ID"
                        SMSKEY                       SMSTZONE
             "Sample Record $"       "Pre-election Time Zone"
                      SMSSTATE
"Pre-election FIPS State Code"

levels(x[[4]])

[1] "Pacific"  "Mountain" "Eastern"  "Central"

...etc...

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