read.por | R Documentation |
Function to read a SPSS por file into a data.frame().
read.por(
file,
convert.factors = TRUE,
generate.factors = TRUE,
encoding = TRUE,
fromEncoding = NULL,
use.missings = TRUE,
debug = FALSE,
override = FALSE,
convert.dates = TRUE,
add.rownames = FALSE
)
file |
string a por-file to import. can be a file on a computer or an url. in this case the file will be downloaded and read before it is used. |
convert.factors |
logical if true numeric or character variables will be converted into a factor in R. |
generate.factors |
logical function to convert variables with
partial labels into factors. e.g. 1 - low and 5 - high are provided, labels
2, 3 and 4 will be created. especially useful in combination with
|
encoding |
logical shall values be converted? If true, |
fromEncoding |
character encoding of the imported file. This information is stored inside the por-file, but is currently unused. Still this option can be used to define the initial encoding by hand. |
use.missings |
logical should missing values be converted. Defaults to TRUE. |
debug |
logical provides additional debug information. Most likely not useful to any user. |
override |
logical The filename provided in |
convert.dates |
logical Should dates be converted on the fly? |
add.rownames |
logical If |
SPSS files are widely available, though for R long time only foreign and memisc provided functions to import por-files. Lately haven joined. This package is an approach to offer another alternative, to document the por-format and provide additional options to import the data.
Information to decrypt the por-format was provided by tda www.stat.rub.de/tda.html and pspp www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
read.spss
, memisc
.
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