get_spss: Load spss data with labels converted to factors

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Description

This function loads an spss .sav file, and creates a dataframe with the description, type and labels of all variables in the data file. This function automatically applies as_factor to the data, converting all variables with labels in spss to factors in R.

Usage

get_spss(file)

Arguments

file	A characater string with the location of the spss file to be loaded.

Details

To convert labels to factors function haven::as_factor(.,only_labelled = TRUE,ordered=TRUE) is used. For details, see ?as_factor.

The dataframe with the description of all variables contains the following information:

• var: Variable name in SPSS and R

• name: Variable label in SPSS

• spss.format: Variable format in SPSS

• class: Variable class in R

• n.na: Number of NA's

• n.nan: Number of NaN's

• n.distinct: Number of distinct values

• n.labels: Number of labels

• labels: All labels concatenated and separated by ';'

• labels.1 thru labels.n: each label is displayed separatly in a variable

Value

A list with two components:

• sav(dataframe): with the actual data

• vars(dataframe): with the description of all variables

Examples

spss.data <- get_spss(file)$sav

spss <- get_spss(file)
spss.data <- spss$sav
spss.vars <- spss$vars

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