Dear all, I am trying to conduct an enhanced version of factor analysis with a SPSS interface that allows to use R. This approach has been suggested in the recent article: Basto, M. and J.M. Pereira An SPSS R-Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis. Journal of Statistical Software 46, pp. 1-29. My variables are ordinal-type and the tool of Basto allows to run polychoric correlations in the SPSS environment with the R essentials ans Plugin. I used R 2.10 version for spss 20 (I only have access to spss 20). I loaded the required packages. When running the factor analysis in spss with the plugin I receive the error message posted below. Aparently, the tool of Basto runs only with spss 19. Since the packages and the plugin are installed I think it must be a problem of the spss version. Could someone suggest me a solution for the problem? I am not familiar with R, and so I would prefer to run the factor analysis in spss. Is there any possebility to run it with spss V. 20? Best regards and compliments for your work, Till Below (PhD student, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany) -------------------------------- SPSS output with error message: GET FILE='C:\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. DATASET NAME DatenSet1 WINDOW=FRONT. DATASET ACTIVATE DatenSet1. SAVE OUTFILE='C:\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX /COMPRESSED. *M?rio Basto, Jos? Manuel Pereira, IPCA *Required: SPSS 19 and R Integration Plugin *R Packages required: psych, polycor, GPArotation, nFactors, corpcor, ICS. set printback off. -- Till Below (PhD Student) Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin
On 26/03/2012 7:32 AM, Till Below wrote:> Dear all, > > I am trying to conduct an enhanced version of factor analysis with a > SPSS interface that allows to use R. This approach has been suggested in > the recent article: > > Basto, M. and J.M. Pereira An SPSS R-Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis. > Journal of Statistical Software 46, pp. 1-29. > > My variables are ordinal-type and the tool of Basto allows to run > polychoric correlations in the SPSS environment with the R essentials > ans Plugin. > > I used R 2.10 version for spss 20 (I only have access to spss 20). I > loaded the required packages. When running the factor analysis in spss > with the plugin I receive the error message posted below. Aparently, the > tool of Basto runs only with spss 19. Since the packages and the plugin > are installed I think it must be a problem of the spss version. > > Could someone suggest me a solution for the problem? I am not familiar > with R, and so I would prefer to run the factor analysis in spss. Is > there any possebility to run it with spss V. 20?I think you will need to ask this question in an SPSS help forum: - Version 2.10.x of R is quite old, and is no longer supported. - The error message is coming from SPSS, not R Duncan Murdoch> Best regards and compliments for your work, > > Till Below (PhD student, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany) > > -------------------------------- > SPSS output with error message: > > GET > FILE='C:\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. > DATASET NAME DatenSet1 WINDOW=FRONT. > DATASET ACTIVATE DatenSet1. > SAVE OUTFILE='C:\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > /COMPRESSED. > *M?rio Basto, Jos? Manuel Pereira, IPCA > *Required: SPSS 19 and R Integration Plugin > *R Packages required: psych, polycor, GPArotation, nFactors, corpcor, ICS. > set printback off. > > > > > > > > > >
Hi Till, you need a plug-in for SPSS to run R, which is bound to a fixed R version. SPSS 19 uses R2.10 and SPSS 20 uses R2.12 (both not up-to-date R versions). So you have to download this plugin (after registering on IBM Support) for your spss version and the according R version - or start with a brand new R2.14 ;) Cheers. Am 26.03.2012 13:32, schrieb Till Below:> Dear all, > > I am trying to conduct an enhanced version of factor analysis with a > SPSS interface that allows to use R. This approach has been suggested in > the recent article: > > Basto, M. and J.M. Pereira An SPSS R-Menu for Ordinal Factor Analysis. > Journal of Statistical Software 46, pp. 1-29. > > My variables are ordinal-type and the tool of Basto allows to run > polychoric correlations in the SPSS environment with the R essentials > ans Plugin. > > I used R 2.10 version for spss 20 (I only have access to spss 20). I > loaded the required packages. When running the factor analysis in spss > with the plugin I receive the error message posted below. Aparently, the > tool of Basto runs only with spss 19. Since the packages and the plugin > are installed I think it must be a problem of the spss version. > > Could someone suggest me a solution for the problem? I am not familiar > with R, and so I would prefer to run the factor analysis in spss. Is > there any possebility to run it with spss V. 20? > > Best regards and compliments for your work, > > Till Below (PhD student, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany) > > -------------------------------- > SPSS output with error message: > > GET > FILE='C:\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. > DATASET NAME DatenSet1 WINDOW=FRONT. > DATASET ACTIVATE DatenSet1. > SAVE OUTFILE='C:\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > /COMPRESSED. > *M?rio Basto, Jos? Manuel Pereira, IPCA > *Required: SPSS 19 and R Integration Plugin > *R Packages required: psych, polycor, GPArotation, nFactors, corpcor, ICS. > set printback off. > > > > > > > > > >-- Eik Vettorazzi Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Martinistr. 52 20246 Hamburg T ++49/40/7410-58243 F ++49/40/7410-57790 -- Pflichtangaben gem?? Gesetz ?ber elektronische Handelsregister und Genossenschaftsregister sowie das Unternehmensregister (EHUG): Universit?tsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf; K?rperschaft des ?ffentlichen Rechts; Gerichtsstand: Hamburg Vorstandsmitglieder: Prof. Dr. Guido Sauter (Vertreter des Vorsitzenden), Dr. Alexander Kirstein, Joachim Pr?l?, Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Koch-Gromus