[R] Now another question regarding the Foreign package

[Francisco J. Zagmutt]

Dear David

I suspect you downloaded 'foreign' but you didn't load it to your workspace. 
  To do that you have to use library(foreign).  Then you can have access to 
the functions in that package.
In addition to the manuals that come with R (Help->Manuals (in pdf)) there 
is a wealth of reading material available on the R homepage under 
'Documentation'.  A good starting point is to buy one of the books 
recommended in the books section.

I hope this helps

Francisco


>From: "David Kaplan" <dkaplan at udel.edu>
>To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>Subject: [R] Now another question regarding the Foreign package
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:42:34 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>Because I'm new to R and trying to move off of SPSS, I have another 
>question.  I downloaded the "Foreign" package which I understand reads in 
>various datasets from programs such as SPSS and SAS.  There isn't much 
>documentation that I can find regarding the specifics of this in the online 
>docs, but I assume that it is like read.table.  So, here is what I wrote 
>and here is what I got.
>
>  bw2 <- read.spss("c:\birthwt.sav")
>Error: couldn't find function "read.spss"
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks again for your help.
>
>David
>
>
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