Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I am considering moving from SPSS to R as my stats environment of
> choice. I have read around and everything looks favourable. There is
> just one issue on which I have been unable to find information.
>
> Many clients ask me to send them output (tables, graphs, etc) as an spss
> output file (ie .spo). I haven't asked them why, I've just said yes. I
> know R can produce graphics as nice as SPSS, and presumably they can be
> output in some portable format for pasting into a word-processor
> document. I need to find out why the client wants spo. In the meantime
> let's assume they have a good reason.
>
> Can R write .spo files? Failing that does any one know of any spo
> writers that I could wire up to R (eg with some python gluecode)?
> Failing that any suggestions for overcoming the output hurdle would be
> welcome, as R looks very attractive (platform independent, easy to use
> and to automate, fast).
RSiteSearch("SPSS", restrict="function") shows nothing relevant to
*.spo files. I don't think you will ever see an R *.spo writer. You
might look into one or more of the following to produce accessible and
attractive output for clients:
Sweave
OdfWeave
R2HTML
> Best wishes
>
> Ivan
>
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