Re: [R] how to read .sps (SPSS file extension)?

2008-11-26 Thread Eik Vettorazzi
sorry for the typo, help(importer, package="memisc") will do the trick. Eik Vettorazzi schrieb: maybe the importers of the memisc-package will help you, but I never tried them, see help(importers,package="memisc") At a first glance it seems, that you have to split your file manually, but

Re: [R] how to read .sps (SPSS file extension)?

2008-11-26 Thread Eik Vettorazzi
maybe the importers of the memisc-package will help you, but I never tried them, see help(importers,package="memisc") At a first glance it seems, that you have to split your file manually, but maybe there is another way. hth. livio finos schrieb: sorry, you are completely right! sps is not

Re: [R] how to read .sps (SPSS file extension)?

2008-11-25 Thread livio finos
sorry, you are completely right! sps is not the extension for portable file! sorry for the time I make you spend. I try to make my problem more clear. I exporting a dataset from limesurvey (a free software for internet survey). It works very fine and it allow to export in different format such as c

Re: [R] how to read .sps (SPSS file extension)?

2008-11-25 Thread Eik Vettorazzi
Hi Livio, I think you mixed something up. The .sps - files are the syntax files of SPSS, and I think there is no automated way (but I would like to be corrected there) of converting SPSS syntax to R-code. The usual data files of spss have the extension .sav. Such files can easily read by read

Re: [R] how to read .sps (SPSS file extension)?

2008-11-25 Thread Martin Elff
Hi Livio, On Monday 24 November 2008 (21:44:45), livio finos wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm trying to import .sps (SPSS portable file) file. > the read.spss function (library foreign) doesn't allow to import such > files. Is this really a 'portable' file (usually these files have the extension '.por

[R] how to read .sps (SPSS file extension)?

2008-11-25 Thread livio finos
Hi everyone, I'm trying to import .sps (SPSS portable file) file. the read.spss function (library foreign) doesn't allow to import such files. should I import in spss and then save as sav file? there is not other solutions available? what I mostly like from spss file is that they have variable labe