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Old 03-04-2006, 02:11 AM   #1
towsonu2003
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Question [solved] GNU R help with converting SPSS file - object not found


Using ubuntu 5.10 (so you now I'm newbie ). Got R from its' repositories.

I'm trying to learn GNU R for a much needed complete switch to linux. I have a file in spss.sav format that R has to read... I tried
Code:
foreign
#or#
read.spss
but for both (and any combination) it says: no object found. What am I doing wrong?

If I can open this file in R, this will be a huge step for me to learn R. I have r-base along with about 20 crans including r-cran-foreign, which is supposed to do this conversion.

Any help greatly appreciated. Sorry I begged too much

Solution: library(foreign)
god this thing is hard!

Last edited by towsonu2003; 03-04-2006 at 02:46 AM.
 
Old 03-04-2006, 04:31 AM   #2
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Just my 2 cents: I wonder if you have read the manual right (btw I do NOT use and know R). My intuition says you usually have to give a command and a file name. Browsing a little,
http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/...2001/0942.html
seems to support something like this: read.spss("c:/test.sav").
 
Old 03-04-2006, 12:30 PM   #3
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I assumed it loads libraries automatically, but that was not the case. I had to call foreign with library (as per above). than use read.spss as shown in help(read.spss), which doesn't work while the library is not loaded.
 
  


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