if i were you, i will use sqlite, as mentioned in your email already.
spss should be able to read sqlite data easily through odbc.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Fredrik Karlsson <dargosch@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I am leaving my old position and now need to convert my R data frames
> into a format that can be used by an SPSS user replacing me, without
> running into conversion problems.
> The data set consists of strings in UTF8 encoding and values in double
> precision floats. The data set is not terribly large, but I had bit
> problems getting it into R due to the large number of unfortunate
> characters in the strings (', #, " and so on) so I was just wondering
> if there is any way to get the data into a SPSS friendly format (other
> than tab-separated files) so that a minimum of conversion is done in
> between the two systems.
> A data base file (SQLite) would be ideal, but unfortunatelly, I don't
> think the recieving end would be able to handle it, i.e. get the data
> into SPSS.
>
> Sorry for asking this on the list, but I have found lots of
> information about getting data safelly _into_ R in the archive, but
> far les about exporting data out of R.
>
> Please give me your best tip.
>
> /Fredrik
>
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