sorry, you are completely right!
sps is not the extension for portable file! sorry for the time I make you
spend.
I try to make my problem more clear.
I exporting a dataset from limesurvey (a free software for internet survey).
It works very fine and it allow to export in different format such as csv
and excel. this fine, but what I like from spss formats is the variables
labels.
limesurvey declares to export in spss, but it export in sps format which is
not a format but a code actually. I realize it just now, sorry. I attach an
extract of the code here below.
do you have any suggestion on how to manage that? I think it will be great
if we can improve the interconnettivity among free software.
thanks again..
  livio

NEW FILE.
FILE TYPE NESTED RECORD=1(A).
- RECORD TYPE 'A'.
- DATA LIST LIST / i0(A1) d1(N3) d2(DATETIME20.0) d3(A15) d4(N2) d5(N1)
d6(N1) d7(N1) d8(N1) d9(N1) d10(N1) d11(N1) d12(N1) d13(N1) d14(N1) d15(N1)
d16(N1) d17(N2) d18(N1) d19(N1) d20(N1) .

- RECORD TYPE 'B'.
- DATA LIST LIST / i1(A1) d21(N1) d22(N1) d23(N1) d24(N1) d25(N1) d26(N1)
d27(N1) d28(N1) d29(N1) d30(N1) d31(N1) d32(N1) d33(N1) d34(N1) d35(N1)
d36(N1) d37(N1) d38(A37) d39(N1) d40(N1) .

- RECORD TYPE 'C'.
- DATA LIST LIST / i2(A1) d41(N1) d42(N1) d43(N1) d44(N1) d45(N1) d46(N1)
d47(N1) d48(N1) d49(N1) d50(N1) d51(N1) d52(N1) d53(N1) d54(N1) d55(N1)
d56(N1) d57(N1) d58(N1) d59(N1) d60(N1) .

- RECORD TYPE 'D'.
- DATA LIST LIST / i3(A1) d61(N1) d62(N1) d63(N1) d64(N1) d65(N1) d66(N1)
d67(N1) d68(N1) d69(N1) d70(N1) d71(N1) d72(N1) d73(N1) d74(N1) d75(N1)
d76(N1) d77(N1) d78(N1) d79(N1) d80(N1) .

- RECORD TYPE 'E'.
- DATA LIST LIST / i4(A1) d81(N1) d82(N1) d83(N1) d84(N1) d85(N1) d86(N1)
d87(N1) d88(N1) d89(N1) d90(N1) d91(N1) d92(N1) d93(N1) d94(N1) d95(N1)
d96(N1) d97(N1) d98(N1) d99(N1) d100(N1) .

- RECORD TYPE 'F'.
- DATA LIST LIST / i5(A1) d101(N1) d102(N1) d103(N1) d104(N1) d105(N1)
d106(N1) d107(N1) d108(N1) d109(N1) .
END FILE TYPE.

BEGIN DATA
A '8' '01-01-1980 00:00:00' 'it' '13' '1' '1' '' '1' '' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1'
'4' '0' '' '1' '' '1'
B '' '1' '1' '1' '1' '0' '' '0' '' '2' '2' '1' '4' '2' '7' '3' '2' '0''2'
'3'
C '3' '4' '4' '2' '2' '1' '4' '4' '2' '3' '1' '4' '1' '4' '1' '1' '4' '3'
'4' '3'
D '1' '3' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '2' '2' '2' '2' '3' '3'
'3' '2'
E '2' '3' '2' '2' '0''0''0''0''0''0''0''3' '4' '4' '2' '1' '5' '2' '5' '4'
F '1' '2' '2' '2' '2' '1' '2' '2' '5'
A '9' '01-01-1980 00:00:00' 'it' '13' '2' '1' '' '1' '' '0' '' '1' '1' '1'
'3' '0' '' '1' '' '1'
B '' '0' '' '1' '1' '0' '' '0' '' '2' '2' '1' '4' '3' '7' '3' '2' '0''2' '4'

C '3' '4' '4' '3' '3' '3' '4' '3' '2' '2' '1' '3' '1' '4' '1' '4' '4' '4'
'4' '3'
D '1' '2' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '3' '1' '3' '3' '3' '3'
'3' '3'
E '3' '3' '3' '2' '0''0''0''0''0''0''0''3' '4' '2' '2' '5' '3' '5' '2' '5'
F '1' '5' '5' '5' '5' '5' '5' '2' '5'
A '10' '01-01-1980 00:00:00' 'it' '13' '1' '1' '' '1' '' '1' '2' '0' '' '0'
'' '0' '' '1' '' '1'
B '' '1' '2' '0' '' '0' '' '0' '' '1' '2' '1' '4' '6' '7' '3' '2' '0''3' '3'

C '4' '4' '4' '4' '3' '4' '4' '3' '2' '2' '1' '4' '1' '4' '1' '3' '4' '4'
'4' '1'
D '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '1' '3' '3' '3' '3' '3' '3' '3'
'3' '3'
E '3' '3' '3' '2' '0''0''0''0''0''0''0''5' '4' '5' '2' '5' '5' '5' '5' '5'
F '1' '5' '5' '5' '5' '5' '5' '1' '5'
END DATA.
EXECUTE.

*Define Variable Properties.
VARIABLE LABELS d1 'Record ID'.
VARIABLE LABELS d2 'Data di completamento'.
VARIABLE LABELS d3 'Lingua di partenza'.
VARIABLE LABELS d4 'EtÃ :'.
VARIABLE LABELS d5 'Sesso:'.
VARIABLE LABELS d6 '3 - PapÃ '.
VARIABLE LABELS d7 'Com&apos;Ã¨ composta la tua famiglia? - COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d8 '3 - Mamma'.
VARIABLE LABELS d9 'Com&apos;Ã¨ composta la tua famiglia? - COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d10 '3 - Fratelli nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d11 'Com&apos;Ã¨ composta la tua famiglia? - COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d12 '3 - Sorelle nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d13 'Com&apos;Ã¨ composta la tua famiglia? - COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d14 '3 - Nonni nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d15 'Com&apos;Ã¨ composta la tua famiglia? - COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d16 '3 - Altre figure parentali (zii, cugini, ecc.) nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d17 'Com&apos;Ã¨ composta la tua famiglia? - COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d18 '4 - PapÃ '.
VARIABLE LABELS d19 'QualiÂ di queste personeÂ vivono in casa con te? -
COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d20 '4 - Mamma'.
VARIABLE LABELS d21 'QualiÂ di queste personeÂ vivono in casa con te? -
COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d22 '4 - Fratelli nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d23 'QualiÂ di queste personeÂ vivono in casa con te? -
COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d24 '4 - Sorelle nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d25 'QualiÂ di queste personeÂ vivono in casa con te? -
COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d26 '4 - Nonni nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d27 'QualiÂ di queste personeÂ vivono in casa con te? -
COMMENT'.
VARIABLE LABELS d28 '4 - Altre figure parentali (zii, cugini, ecc.) nÂ°'.
VARIABLE LABELS d29 'QualiÂ di queste personeÂ vivono in casa con te? -
COMMENT'.


*Define Value labels.
VALUE LABELS d5
1 "Maschio"
2 "Femmina".
VALUE LABELS d6
1 "SÃ¬"
0 "Non selezionato".
VALUE LABELS d8
1 "SÃ¬"
0 "Non selezionato".




On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Eik Vettorazzi <
E.Vettorazzi@uke.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:

> Hi Livio,
> I think you mixed something up. The .sps - files are the syntax files of
> SPSS, and I think there is no automated way (but I would like to be
> corrected there) of converting SPSS syntax to R-code. The usual data files
> of spss  have the extension .sav. Such files can easily read by read.spss
> (package foreign) or spss.get (package Hmisc), if you think the variable
> labels of SPSS are fancy the latter approach is possibly more appropriate,
> because it adds an attribute with this label to each row.
> hth.
>
>
>
> livio finos schrieb:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I'm trying to import .sps (SPSS portable file) file.
>> the read.spss function (library foreign) doesn't allow to import such
>> files.
>> should I import in spss and then save as sav file? there is not other
>> solutions available?
>> what I mostly like from spss file is that they have variable labels.
>> want is really wish to keep are the variable.labels from the spss file;
>> so,
>> if there is a different way to bring them from the sps file will be also
>> ok
>> (I also have a csv copy but without the variable.labels obviously).
>> thanks for any answer..
>>  livio
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