readSPSS: Read an SPSS Data Set

In RcmdrMisc: R Commander Miscellaneous Functions

Read an SPSS Data Set

Description

readSPSS reads an SPSS data set, stored in a file of type .sav or .por, into an R data frame; it provides a front end to the read_spss function in the haven package and the read.spss function in the foreign package.

Usage

readSPSS(file, rownames=FALSE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE,
  tolower=TRUE, use.value.labels=TRUE, use.haven=!por)

Arguments

file	path to an SPSS .sav or .por file.
rownames	if TRUE (the default is FALSE), the first column in the data set contains row names, which should be unique.
stringsAsFactors	if TRUE (the default is FALSE) then columns containing character data are converted to factors and factors are created from SPSS value labels.
tolower	change variable names to lowercase, default TRUE.
use.value.labels	if TRUE, the default, variables with value labels in the SPSS data set will become either factors or character variables (depending on the stringsAsFactors argument) with the value labels as their levels or values. As for read.spss, this is only done if there are at least as many labels as values of the variable (and values without a matching label are returned as NA).
use.haven	use read_spss from the haven package to read the file, in preference to read.spss from the foreign package; the default is TRUE for a .sav file and FALSE for a .por file.

Value

a data frame

Author(s)

John Fox [e-mail]

See Also

read_spss, read.spss

RcmdrMisc documentation built on Sept. 26, 2023, 3 a.m.