R/spss.reader.R

In KentonWhite/rsangole-201-rstudio: Automates the Creation of New Statistical Analysis Projects

#' Read an SPSS file with a .sav file extension.
#'
#' This function will load the specified SPSS file into memory. It will
#' convert the resulting list object into a data frame before inserting the
#' data set into the global environment.
#'
#' @param data.file The name of the data file to be read.
#' @param filename The path to the data set to be loaded.
#' @param variable.name The name to be assigned to in the global environment.
#'
#' @return No value is returned; this function is called for its side effects.
#'
#' @examples
#' library('ProjectTemplate')
#'
#' \dontrun{spss.reader('example.sav', 'data/example.sav', 'example')}
spss.reader <- function(data.file, filename, variable.name)
{
  .require.package('foreign')

  assign(variable.name,
         foreign::read.spss(filename, to.data.frame = TRUE),
         envir = .TargetEnv)
}