write.por: write.por

In JanMarvin/readspss: Importing and Exporting SPSS Files

write.por

Description

Function to write an SPSS por file. Returns an por file that read.por can read as well as SPSS can. Other packages as foreign, memisc and haven might fail (fail reading or return wrong values).

Usage

write.por(
  dat,
  filepath,
  label,
  add.rownames = FALSE,
  convert.factors = TRUE,
  toEncoding = "CP1252",
  convert.dates = TRUE,
  tz = "GMT"
)

Arguments

dat	data.frame a data.frame to export as por-file.
filepath	string full path where and how this file should be stored
label	character vector of labels. must be of size ncol(dat)
add.rownames	logical If TRUE, a new variable rownames will be added to the por-file.
convert.factors	logical If TRUE, factors will be converted to SPSS variables with labels. SPSS expects strings to be encoded as Windows-1252, so all levels will be recoded. Character which can not be mapped in Windows-1252 will be saved as hexcode.
toEncoding	character encoding used for the por file. SPSS itself claims to have problems with unicode and por files, so "CP1252" is the default.
convert.dates	logical should dates be converted to SPSS format
tz	character The name of the timezone convert.dates will use.

Details

Strings longer than 255 chars are not provided. File will be stored using "CP1252" encoding.

Value

write.por returns nothing

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