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read.spss trouble

3 messages · Martin Klaffenboeck, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, Marc Schwartz

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Hello!

I'm not sure if this is an german list, so I will post in 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?

Thanks for your help,
Martin
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Hi Martin,
Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
It's an English list.
It's in the package "foreign".  Try:
   library(foreign)

HTH,

Kevin
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On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 13:23 +0000, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
The official language is English.
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