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

[John Kane]

--- Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:06 AM, John Kane wrote:
> 
> >
> > --- Adrian Dusa <dusa.adrian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas <at> hanover.edu>
> writes:
> >>> [...]
> >>> I save as csv format all the time, and it offers
> >> me a choice to use
> >>> the labels instead of the corresponding numbers.
> >> So you shouldn't
> >>> have to lose that labelling.
> >>
> >> This is interesting and I tried to do this as
> well;
> >> I don't have access to an
> >> SPSS 15 (only to version 14 for the moment) but I
> >> cannot find the option to save
> >> as CSV. Is it a version 15 feature?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Adrian
> >
> > I cannot remember if I have been using 14 or 14, I
> > think it was 14 and I'm not near the machine to
> check.
> >
> >   There does not seem to be a csv export in 14 but
> it
> > looks like you can achieve the same thing by using
> one
> > of the Excel outputs and then dumping the file
> from
> > there.
> 
> 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.  
> 
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
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