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readSPSS

Read an SPSS Data Set

Description

readSPSS reads an SPSS data set, stored in a file of type .sav or .por, into an R data frame; it provides a front end to the read_spss function in the haven package and the read.spss function in the foreign package.

Usage

readSPSS(file, rownames=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE,
  tolower=TRUE, use.value.labels=TRUE, use.haven=!por)

Arguments

`file`	path to an SPSS `.sav` or `.por` file.
`rownames`	if `TRUE` (the default is `FALSE`), the first column in the data set contains row names, which should be unique.
`stringsAsFactors`	if `TRUE` (the default is `FALSE`) then columns containing character data are converted to factors and factors are created from SPSS value labels.
`tolower`	change variable names to lowercase, default `TRUE`.
`use.value.labels`	if `TRUE`, the default, variables with value labels in the SPSS data set will become either factors or character variables (depending on the `stringsAsFactors` argument) with the value labels as their levels or values. As for `read.spss`, this is only done if there are at least as many labels as values of the variable (and values without a matching label are returned as `NA`).
`use.haven`	use `read_spss` from the haven package to read the file, in preference to `read.spss` from the foreign package; the default is `TRUE` for a `.sav` file and `FALSE` for a `.por` file.

Value

a data frame

Author(s)

John Fox jfox@mcmaster.ca

readSPSS

Description

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See Also

RcmdrMisc

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