[R] read.spss (package foreign) and SPSS 15.0 files

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

John Kane wrote:
> --- Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:41 AM, John Kane wrote:
>>> --- Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:
>>>> It is not an "export" option, it is a "save as"
>>>> option. I don't have
>>>> a 14 to check, but on a 15 I just go to File ->
>> Save
>>>> As, and change
>>>> the "Save as type" field to "Comma Delimited
>>>> (.*.csv)". (I suppose
>>>> tab delimited would be another option). Then
>> there
>>>> are two check-
>>>> boxes below the window that allow a bit further
>>>> customizing, one of
>>>> them is about using value labels where defined
>>>> instead of data values.
>>> I'm now back on a machine with SPSS 14.  No csv
>> option
>>> that I can see.  Perhaps an enhancement to v15.
>> I don't have a 14, but I did check a 13 today and
>> you are correct, no  
>> csv option is there, which in my opinion is quite
>> unacceptable for a  
>> statistical package that is on its 13/14th version.
>> But there was an  
>> option for "Excel 97 and ...", and that seemed to
>> allow using value  
>> labels instead of the values (again you have to
>> check the  
>> corresponding box). So perhaps that would be an
>> option.
> 
> Not my problem at the moment but a colleague pointed
> out that he had 750+ variables. Excel handles 256. 
> 
> Actually my problem is now a SAS one where I can get a
> clean csv export but lose the variable labels.  My
> crude workaround was just to do a proc contents and
> cut-and-paste the results.  A  pain but it worked.  
> 
> I've got to figure out why I cannot get Hmisc to work!

And note that Hmisc has other SAS import options besides sas.get that 
keep labels.  Some of them require you to run PROC CONTENTS CNTLOUT= to 
save metadata in a dataset.

Frank

> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
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