[R] SPSS and R ? do they like each other?

[Stefano Calza]

Hi,

from SPSS you can save in export format and then use read.spss in R. But you don't retain the labelling (AFAIK).

Nevertheless, let me ask you what kind of table spss gives you that R can't?

Ciao,
Stefano


On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:33:39PM +0100, Thomas Schönhoff wrote:
<Thomas>Hello Micael,
<Thomas>
<Thomas>2005/11/21, zorritillito-secure at yahoo.de <zorritillito-secure at yahoo.de>:
<Thomas>> Hi,
<Thomas>>
<Thomas>> I wonder how well SPSS and R communicate, because I
<Thomas>> need SPSS but would like to do some data manipulations
<Thomas>> in R. However I am very afraid of never ending
<Thomas>> import-export-complications ? especially with all
<Thomas>> those labels and extra information my SPSS files
<Thomas>> contain. My data come from SPSS and have to be
<Thomas>> exported to SPSS again (because I need to produce
<Thomas>> special output tables, which would be hard to generate
<Thomas>> in R).
<Thomas>
<Thomas>I've experiencing no big problems when choosing a simple text format
<Thomas>for your data files!
<Thomas>Since I don't know what data specifics characterize your files it is
<Thomas>hard to assure everything will go well. But if you do choose the
<Thomas>appropriate file format there shouldn't be too much problem moving
<Thomas>files to and fro R.
<Thomas>
<Thomas>
<Thomas>regards
<Thomas>
<Thomas>Thomas
<Thomas>
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