R help - Dec 2012 - How to read SPSS file in R

Dear R-users, 

I have som troubles with .sav file. How is it possible for us R-users to
read SPSS files. I know that is possible, 


I tried the following: 

> library(foreign)
> Corp<-read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav",
header=TRUE,
> sep=",")
Error in read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav", header =
TRUE,  :
  unused argument(s) (header = TRUE, sep =
",")
> Corp<-read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav")
re-encoding from UTF-8

Any suggestions please? 

Regards, 
Faradj
Stockholm University



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> I tried the following: 
> 
> 
>> library(foreign)
>> Corp<-read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav",
header=TRUE,
>> sep=",")
> Error in read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav", header
= TRUE,  :
> unused argument(s) (header = TRUE, sep = ",")
>> Corp<-read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav")
> re-encoding from UTF-8
> 
> Any suggestions please?
At the risk of being glib, Yes. 
i) Read the error message.
ii) Read the help file for ?read.css 

Then think about why supplying two unnecessary arguments might cause an error
message that says "unused arguments..." and what the help file tells
you about UTF-8 encoding.

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The following works just fine for me, using the built-in SPSS dataset
nhis2000_subset.sav. 

library(foreign)
a=read.spss("C:\\Program
Files\\IBM\\SPSS\\Statistics\\21\\Samples\\English\\nhis2000_subset.sav",
to.data.frame=T)
 names(a)
 [1] "STRATUM"  "PSU"      "WTFA_SA" 
"SEX"      "AGE_P"    "REGION"  
"SMKNOW"   "VITANY"   "VITMUL"  
"HERBSUPP" "VIGFREQW"
[12] "MODFREQW" "STRFREQW" "DESIREWT"
"MOVE1"    "LIFT"     "age_cat"

You do not need to specify a comma delimiter on your read.spss statement since
the file is already in a native SPSS dataset format -- not a CSV file.

--Mark Lamias





________________________________
 From: F86 <faradj.g@gmail.com>
To: r-help@r-project.org 
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 10:55 AM
Subject: [R] How to read SPSS file in R

Dear R-users, 

I have som troubles with .sav file. How is it possible for us R-users to
read SPSS files. I know that is possible, 


I tried the following: 

> library(foreign)
> Corp<-read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav",
header=TRUE,
> sep=",")
Error in read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav", header =
TRUE,  :
  unused argument(s) (header = TRUE, sep =
",")
> Corp<-read.spss("/Users/kama/Analysis/Corporation.sav")
re-encoding from UTF-8

Any suggestions please? 

Regards, 
Faradj
Stockholm University



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