[R] reading Systat into R

[Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.]

> The SPSS *.SAV file, when I opened it, proved not to have any data in it.
> It only contained the "variable view" not the "data view."  But the Excel
> file appears to contain the data.
>

My experience with getting spss files suggests that you might actually be
seeing the file as a list.  Look at help for
?read.spss.  The most usable format to get a data frame is:

dframe=read.spss("MyData.sav",to.data.frame=T)

See if this doesn't do what you expect.