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spss.get

Enhanced Importing of SPSS Files

Description

spss.get invokes the read.spss function in the foreign package to read an SPSS file, with a default output format of "data.frame". The label function is used to attach labels to individual variables instead of to the data frame as done by read.spss. By default, integer-valued variables are converted to a storage mode of integer unless force.single=FALSE. Date variables are converted to R Date variables. By default, underscores in names are converted to periods.

Usage

spss.get(file, lowernames=FALSE, datevars = NULL,
         use.value.labels = TRUE, to.data.frame = TRUE,
         max.value.labels = Inf, force.single=TRUE,
         allow=NULL, charfactor=FALSE, reencode = NA)

Arguments

`file`	input SPSS save file. May be a file on the WWW, indicated by `file` starting with `'http://'` or `'https://'`.
`lowernames`	set to `TRUE` to convert variable names to lower case
`datevars`	vector of variable names containing dates to be converted to R internal format
`use.value.labels`	see `read.spss`
`to.data.frame`	see `read.spss`; default is `TRUE` for `spss.get`
`max.value.labels`	see `read.spss`
`force.single`	set to `FALSE` to prevent integer-valued variables from being converted from storage mode `double` to `integer`
`allow`	a vector of characters allowed by R that should not be converted to periods in variable names. By default, underscores in variable names are converted to periods as with R before version 1.9.
`charfactor`	set to `TRUE` to change character variables to factors if they have fewer than n/2 unique values. Blanks and null strings are converted to `NA`s.
`reencode`	see `read.spss`

Value

a data frame or list

Author(s)

Frank Harrell

Examples

## Not run: 
w <- spss.get('/tmp/my.sav', datevars=c('birthdate','deathdate'))
  
## End(Not run)

Hmisc

Harrell Miscellaneous

v4.5-0

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Frank E Harrell Jr <fh@fharrell.com>, with contributions from Charles Dupont and many others.

Initial release

2021-02-27