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2006 Feb 19
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Converting factors back to numbers. Trouble with SPSS import data
...le values are not easily recovered in R.
I'm comparing 2 imported datasets, "eldat" (read.spss with No
convert-to-factors) and
"eldatfac" (read.spss with convert-to-factors)
If I bring in the data without conversion to factors:
library(foreign)
eldat <- read.spss("18CitySCBSsorted.sav", use.value.labels=F,
to.data.frame=T)
I can see the variable HAPPY is coded 0, 1, 2, 3. Those are the
numbers that SPSS
uses as contrast values when it runs a regression with HAPPY.
In contrast, allow R to translate the variables with a few value
labels into fa...