Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R: > > In the foreign library, there is a function "write.foreign". > > When this is used to write to an SPSS file, there are > actually 2 files as output: a data file and a code file. > > How would you coordinate these to become an SPSS sav file, > please?
Using the warpbreaks dataset as an example, do the following in R: library(foreign) write.foreign(warpbreaks, "c:/warpbreaks.dat", "c:/warpbreaks.sps", package="SPSS") In SPSS, open the syntax file "warpbreaks.sps". This syntax will read in the data and apply variable and value labels to variables that were factors in R. I find you often need to edit the syntax file created by write.foreign just a bit in SPSS. Here is what write.foreign produces for me: DATA LIST FILE= c:/warpbreaks.dat free / breaks wool tension VARIABLE LABELS breaks "breaks" wool "wool" tension "tension" VALUE LABELS / wool 1 "A" 2 "B" / tension 1 "L" 2 "M" 3 "H" EXECUTE. You need to add some periods and quotation marks in critical places for this to run properly in SPSS. DATA LIST FILE= "c:/warpbreaks.dat" free / breaks wool tension . VARIABLE LABELS breaks "breaks" wool "wool" tension "tension" . VALUE LABELS / wool 1 "A" 2 "B" / tension 1 "L" 2 "M" 3 "H" . EXECUTE. Once the data has been read in by running the code file, it can be saved in the SPSS format. > Thanks so much! > > R Version 2.1.0 Windows > > Sincerely, > Erin Hodgess > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 452-1424 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html