get_spss: Load spss data with labels converted to factors

In neale-eldash/pd: Day-2-day functions in R

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

• name: Variable label

• class: Variable class

• valid: Number of valid cases

• n.na: Number of NA's

• n.distinct: Number of distinct values

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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